AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 +48%

1.345 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2010

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

384bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

384

Shading Units

480

24

TMUs

60

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF100

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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