GeForce GTX 490 vs GTX 460 768MB

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking670not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameno dataGF100
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno datano data

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 cores336480
Core clock speed675 MHz608 MHz
Number of transistorsno data3,100 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data365 Watt
Texture fill rateno data36.48
Floating-point processing powerno data1.166 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data60

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data279 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 amountno data1536 MB
Memory bus width192 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1800 MHz854 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data164.0 GB/s

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 Connectorsno data3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX1112 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 460 768MB and GeForce GTX 490. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB
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