GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3080

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Ampere GA102

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2020

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1710 MHz

Core clock speed

1450 MHz

608 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8704

480

Power consumption (TDP)

320 Watt

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

465.1

36.48

Memory type

GDDR6X

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

10 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

320 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

19000 MHz

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

760.3 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

8.5

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

5.1

Vulkan

1.2

N/A