Radeon RX 560X and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 560X

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Polaris 21

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1275 MHz

Core clock speed

1175 MHz

608 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,611 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

3,000 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

480

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

81.60

36.48

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A