
GeForce GTX 490 and Curacao - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 490
Curacao
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GF100
Curacao
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
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Core clock speed
608 MHz
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
36.48
-
Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
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Memory bus width
384 Bit
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Memory clock speed
3.4 GB/s
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Memory bandwidth
164.0 GB/s
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Display Connectors
3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
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DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
2.0
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.170