AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 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)
288 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (160W vs 375W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9270
+11%
1.2 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
1.078 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
Unknown
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
800
Shading Units
512
40
TMUs
64
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
16.86 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.73 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1078 GFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
375W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GF100
RV770 XT
GPU Variant
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
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
