NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +149%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

512

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Curacao

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

180W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

3

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

5

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

6

AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

7

ATI Radeon HD 5770 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2

Related News

1

Changes in Intel Arrow Lake P/E Core Layout: Two Major Benefits

2

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

3

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

4

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

5

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

6

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

7

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

8

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

9

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

10

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time