GeForce RTX 2080 and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 2080

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Turing TU104

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2018

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1710 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1515 MHz

608 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

13,600 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2944

480

Power consumption (TDP)

215 Watt

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

314.6

36.48

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

7.5

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

VR Ready

+

-