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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
Lower TDP (20W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490 +10%
1.166 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1.059 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Unknown
Release Date
Mar 2018
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1152 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz

Memory

1536MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
15
SM Count
3
480
Shading Units
384
60
TMUs
24
48
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W
TDP
20W
750 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GF100
GPU Name
GP108
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.0
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
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