GeForce GTX 490 and GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 490

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF100

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1740 MHz

Core clock speed

608 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

90 Watt

Texture fill rate

36.48

111.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.4 GB/s

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

192.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

2.0

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3