GeForce GTX 490 and Emerald - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 490

Emerald

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

GF100

Emerald

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Core clock speed

608 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

2,080 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

896

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

36.48

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170