Radeon R7 240 and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

Radeon R7 240

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Oland

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2013

-

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

N/A

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

780 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

608 MHz

Floating-point performance

499.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

950 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

480

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

14.00

36.48

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

1150 MHz

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

2.0

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

-

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-