NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

AMD Radeon HD 6490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +206%

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

Radeon HD 6490

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

39W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Redwood

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

Redwood LE

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD Radeon HD 7450 OEM

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs ATI Radeon X1650

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 320 OEM

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5700

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD Radeon HD 8450 OEM

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD Radeon HD 6250

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144SP

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

4

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

5

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

6

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

7

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

8

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

9

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

10

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game