NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs AMD Radeon RX 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 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 112.0GB/s)
AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages
Boost Clock1183MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
1.166 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 550
+3%
1.211 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 400
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1100 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1183 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
15
SM Count
-
480
Shading Units
512
60
TMUs
32
48
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.86 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1211 GFLOPS
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1211 GFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.71 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
50W
750 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
Lexa
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
103 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
