NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 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 670 's Advantages

Boost Clock980MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 670 +125%

2.634 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670

VS

GeForce GTX 490

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

980 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

480

112

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.24 GPixel/s

109.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.634 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1166 GFLOPS

109.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GF100

GK104-325-A2

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Kepler

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

365W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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