GeForce GTX 490 and GeForce4 MX + nForce2 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 490

GeForce4 MX + nForce2

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

GF100

Crush17

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 2002

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Core clock speed

608 MHz

200 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

29 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

36.48

0.8

Memory type

GDDR5

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

System Shared

Memory bus width

384 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

3.4 GB/s

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_0)

8.0

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.3

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

N/A