NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 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 GTX 1050 's Advantages

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 +59%

1.862 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

GeForce GTX 490

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

480

40

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.24 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.48 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1166 GFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GF100

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

365W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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