NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
144 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
+28%
1.166 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460
0.907 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jul 2010
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
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-
-
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854 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
768MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
86.40GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
15
SM Count
7
480
Shading Units
336
60
TMUs
56
48
ROPs
24
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-
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64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.450 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.80 GTexel/s
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-
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1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
907.2 GFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
160W
750 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
GF104
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
GF104-300-KB-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
