NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 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 10.67GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +439%

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

512

Shading Units

160

64

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Caicos

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

19W

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 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

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