UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs vs GeForce GTX 490

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated654
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data11.33
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameGF100Tiger Lake Xe
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)15 August 2020 (4 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 cores48048
Core clock speed608 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1450 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)365 Watt28 Watt
Texture fill rate36.48no data
Floating-point processing power1.166 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48no data
TMUs60no 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount1536 MBno data
Memory bus width384 Bitno data
Memory clock speed854 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth164.0 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 Connectors3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPortno data

Supported technologies

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

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12_1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 365 Watt 28 Watt

UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs has a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 1203.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 490 and UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 490 is a desktop card while UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs is a notebook one.


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