NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 32GB 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 575W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages
Boost Clock2407MHz
More VRAM (32GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
21280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
1.166 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5090
+8887%
104.8 TFLOPS
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
2017 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2407 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
384bit
Memory Bus
512bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
170
480
Shading Units
21760
60
TMUs
680
48
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
680
-
RT Cores
170
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
96 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
423.6 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1637 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
104.8 TFLOPS
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.8 TFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.637 TFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
575W
750 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
GB202
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
GB202-300-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
5 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
750 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
