NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Boost Clock2497MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
3360 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (145W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
1.166 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5060
+1544%
19.18 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
May 2025
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2280 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2497 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
30
480
Shading Units
3840
60
TMUs
120
48
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
119.9 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
19.18 TFLOPS
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.18 TFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
145W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
GB206
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
GB206-250-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
5 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.4
2.0
CUDA
12.0
5.1
Shader Model
6.8
