GeForce GTX 490 and GeForce MX250 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 490

GeForce MX250

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

GF100

N17S-G2

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

February 2019

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1582 MHz

Core clock speed

608 MHz

1518 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

384

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

10/25 Watt

Texture fill rate

36.48

24.91

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.4 GB/s

7000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

48.06 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

2.0

6.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2