GeForce GTX 490 and GeForce RTX 5080 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 490

GeForce RTX 5080

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Blackwell 2.0

GPU code name

GF100

GB203

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

2025 (recently)

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

608 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

0 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

350 Watt

Texture fill rate

36.48

846.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.4 GB/s

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

160.0 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

9.1

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3