NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1696 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (184W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +515%

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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GeForce GTX 490

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

-

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

34

SM Count

15

2176

Shading Units

480

136

TMUs

60

48

ROPs

48

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.24 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.48 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1166 GFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

365W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GF100

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Turing

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

2.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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