AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

AMD FireStream 9270

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 +12%

1.345 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Mar 2010

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

800

Shading Units

480

40

TMUs

60

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GF100

RV770 XT

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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