NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +472%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 400

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

512

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

185W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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