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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages
Boost Clock1755MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
1824 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
1.166 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +593%
8.087 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Unknown
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1515 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1755 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
15
SM Count
18
480
Shading Units
2304
60
TMUs
72
48
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
72
-
RT Cores
18
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.16 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
126.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.087 TFLOPS
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.087 TFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
126.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W
TDP
130W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100
GPU Name
GA106
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
12 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
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