NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD FireStream 9270

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD FireStream 9270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +12%

1.345 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

FireStream 9270

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

800

60

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

160W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

RV770

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

RV770 XT

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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