NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

ATI Radeon HD 3470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

472 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +1584%

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

Radeon HD 3470

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

15.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

40

64

TMUs

4

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

30W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

RV620

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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