GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1050

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

N17P-G1

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2016

-

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)

300 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 8-pin

SLI

-

-

SLI options

-

-

Boost clock speed

1392 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1290 MHz

608 MHz

CUDA cores

640

-

Floating-point performance

1,862 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

3,300 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

480

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

365 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

-

Texture fill rate

58.20

36.48

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

7008 MHz

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

2.2

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

+

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

Ansel

+

-

GameStream

+

-

GPU Boost

3.0

-

VR Ready

+

-