GeForce GTX 490 vs Qualcomm Adreno 690

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking803not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency26.39no data
Architectureno dataFermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameno dataGF100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date6 December 2018 (5 years 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 speedno data608 MHz
Number of transistorsno data3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt365 Watt
Texture fill rateno data36.48
Floating-point processing powerno data1.166 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data60

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data279 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data1536 MB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data854 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data164.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 Connectorsno data3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 5 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 365 Watt

Qualcomm Adreno 690 has a 700% more advanced lithography process, and 5114.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Qualcomm Adreno 690 and GeForce GTX 490. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Qualcomm Adreno 690 is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 490 is a desktop one.


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Qualcomm Adreno 690
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