GeForce GTX 490 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 490

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF100

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

608 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

36.48

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.4 GB/s

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

2.0

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2