GeForce GTX 490 and Radeon RX 5700 XT - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 490

Radeon RX 5700 XT

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Navi / RDNA (2019−2020)

GPU code name

GF100

Navi 10

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2019

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1905 MHz

Core clock speed

608 MHz

1605 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

10,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

225 Watt

Texture fill rate

36.48

304.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.4 GB/s

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

Multi Monitor

VR Ready