NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD Radeon R9 380

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 AMD Radeon R9 380

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380 +222%

3.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

Radeon R9 380

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 400

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

512

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

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

31.04 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.476 TFLOPS

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.476 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

217.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Antigua

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

Antigua PRO (215-0877000)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

5 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

190W

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 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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