GeForce GTX 490 and GeForce RTX 4070 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 490

GeForce RTX 4070

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GF100

AD104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2023

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

2475 MHz

Core clock speed

608 MHz

1920 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

35,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

5888

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

36.48

455.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.4 GB/s

21000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

504.2 GB/s

Shared memory

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

8.9

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3