GeForce GTX 490 vs GeForce4 Ti 4800

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureKelvin (2001−2003)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameNV28 A1GF100
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 March 2003 (21 year ago)no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data480
Core clock speed300 MHz608 MHz
Number of transistors36 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data365 Watt
Texture fill rate2.40036.48
Floating-point processing powerno data1.166 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs860

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 2.0 x16
Length216 mm279 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount128 MB1536 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed325 MHz854 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.4 GB/s164.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX8.112 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 1536 MB
Chip lithography 150 nm 40 nm

GTX 490 has a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

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