GeForce GTX 460 and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 460

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GF104

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2010

-

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 6-pin

2x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

675 MHz

608 MHz

Floating-point performance

907.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

336

480

Power consumption (TDP)

160 Watt

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

37.80

36.48

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

3600 MHz

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

86.4 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

+

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

4.1

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A