NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

3104 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +992%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

28

480

Shading Units

3584

60

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

170W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GA106

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GA106-300-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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