NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 9070 's Advantages
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
3104 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (220W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
1.166 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9070
+2998%
36.13 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 400
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1330 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
56
15
SM Count
-
480
Shading Units
3584
60
TMUs
224
48
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
56
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
768 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
322.6 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
564.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
72.25 TFLOPS
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
36.13 TFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1129 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
220W
750 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
Navi 48
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600331)
Fermi
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
4 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.8
