Radeon RX 560 vs GeForce GTX 490
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 560 's Advantages
Boost Clock1275MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
544 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 365W)
GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 560
+123%
2611
GeForce GTX 490
1166
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Unknown
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1175 MHz
Base Clock
-
1275 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
112.0GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
1024
Shading Units
480
64
TMUs
60
16
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
20.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.24 GPixel/s
81.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.48 GTexel/s
2.611 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.611 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1166 GFLOPS
163.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
145.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
365W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Polaris 21
GPU Name
GF100
Polaris 21 XT
(215-0908004)
GPU Variant
GF100-375-A3
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Fermi
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1