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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP 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 560 896SP 's Advantages
Boost Clock1175MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
416 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (45W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
1.166 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 560 896SP +80%
2.106 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Unknown
Release Date
Jul 2017
GeForce 400
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1090 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1175 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
14
15
SM Count
-
480
Shading Units
896
60
TMUs
56
48
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.80 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
65.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.106 TFLOPS
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.106 TFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W
TDP
45W
750 W
Suggested PSU
200 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
Polaris 21
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
Polaris 21 XL
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
3 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
123 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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