Radeon R9 370X and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

Radeon R9 370X

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Trinidad

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2015

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1030 MHz

Core clock speed

980 MHz

608 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,637 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

480

Power consumption (TDP)

180 Watt

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

82.40

36.48

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

5600 MHz

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

179.2 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A