NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs ATI FirePro 2270

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 512MB VRAM FirePro 2270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

400 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro 2270 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (15W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +1301%

1.345 TFLOPS

FirePro 2270

0.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

FirePro 2270

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 400

Generation

FirePro Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

1

480

Shading Units

80

60

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

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Cedar

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Cedar WS

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

15W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 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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