NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

2080 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +1006%

12.9 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

VS

GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 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

20

480

Shading Units

2560

60

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

100W

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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GB207

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GB207

Fermi

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

0 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

Unknown

529 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

9.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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