Radeon R7 Graphics and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

Radeon R7 Graphics

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Spectre

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2014

Interface

IGP

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

980 MHz

Core clock speed

686 MHz

608 MHz

Floating-point performance

526.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

2,410 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

480

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

31.36

36.48

Memory type

System Shared

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

System Shared

1536 MB

Memory bus width

System Shared

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

System Shared

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.0

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A