NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT +345%

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2019

GeForce 400

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

480

Shading Units

1408

60

TMUs

88

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Navi 14

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

Fermi

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

130W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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