NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (365W vs 375W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490 +8%

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

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GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

512

60

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GF100

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

375W

750 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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