GeForce4 MX + nForce2 vs GeForce GTX 490

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	GF100	Crush17
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	no data	1 October 2002 (22 years ago)

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 cores	480 ×2	no data
Core clock speed	608 MHz	200 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	29 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	365 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	36.48 ×2	0.8
Floating-point processing power	1.166 TFLOPS ×2	no data
ROPs	48 ×2	2
TMUs	60 ×2	4

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	279 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	no 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 type	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB ×2	System Shared
Memory bus width	384 Bit ×2	System Shared
Memory clock speed	854 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	164.0 GB/s ×2	no 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 Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	8.0
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.0	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

40 nm

150 nm

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