GeForce GTX 490 and Radeon RX 6700 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 490

Radeon RX 6700

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF100

Navi 22

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2450 MHz

Core clock speed

608 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

17,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

36.48

352.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

10 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

160 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.4 GB/s

16 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

320.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.3