NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
160 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages
Boost Clock780MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
Lower TDP (50W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
+133%
1.166 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 240 OEM
0.499 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 400
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
730 MHz
-
Boost Clock
780 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
15
SM Count
-
480
Shading Units
320
60
TMUs
20
48
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.240 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
499.2 GFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
50W
750 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
Oland
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
77 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
