NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1536GB)

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

3360 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +1119%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce GTX 490

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

15

3840

Shading Units

480

120

TMUs

60

48

ROPs

48

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.24 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.48 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1166 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

365W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF100

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

276 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

8.6

CUDA

2.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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