NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +323%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 400

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

2048

60

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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