NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 ATI Radeon HD 4720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4720 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490 +203%

1.166 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4720

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

VS

Radeon HD 4720

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

480

Shading Units

320

60

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

RV730

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

RV730 XT (215-0719047)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

55W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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