NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 28GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages

Lower TDP (365W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (28GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

20000 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +8750%

103.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

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

2500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

28GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

280.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

160

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

20480

60

TMUs

640

48

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

640

-

RT Cores

160

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1613 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

103.2 TFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

103.2 TFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.613 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GB202

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GB202

Fermi

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

0 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

Unknown

529 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

365W

TDP

500W

750 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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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