Radeon RX 490M vs GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking115not rated
Place by popularity75not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation31.78no data
Power efficiency14.69no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code nameGP104Polaris
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date2 November 2017 (7 years ago)1 August 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2432no data
Core clock speed1607 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1683 MHzno data
Number of transistors7,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology16 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)180 Wattno data
Texture fill rate255.8no data
Floating-point processing power8.186 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs152no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2002 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth256.3 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 November 2017 1 August 2016
Chip lithography 16 nm 14 nm

GTX 1070 Ti has an age advantage of 1 year.

RX 490M, on the other hand, has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and Radeon RX 490M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is a desktop card while Radeon RX 490M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
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AMD Radeon RX 490M
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