GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GP106

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2016

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1708 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

608 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

480

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

36.48

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

6.1

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

VR Ready