GeForce GTX 490 and Radeon RX 6950 XT - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 490

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF100

Navi

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2022

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2324 MHz

Core clock speed

608 MHz

1925 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

26,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

5120

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

335 Watt

Texture fill rate

36.48

743.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.4 GB/s

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

576.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

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