NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs 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
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
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
480
Shading Units
512
60
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
-
-
-
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1078 GFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
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 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
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
