NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 1280GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (215W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
+7%
1.166 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
854 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
320bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
14
480
Shading Units
448
60
TMUs
56
48
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
365W
TDP
215W
750 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
GT215
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
GT215-400-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
2.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
