NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs ATI FirePro V9800P

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

ATI FirePro V9800P

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800P to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

ATI FirePro V9800P 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

1120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800P +102%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

FirePro V9800P

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 400

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

1600

60

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

225W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Cypress

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

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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