Radeon 540 and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

Radeon 540

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Lexa

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1124 MHz

Core clock speed

1183 MHz

608 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

2,200 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

480

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.39

36.48

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

32 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6 GB/s

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

24 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

5.1

Vulkan

1.3

N/A