NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 ATI Radeon HD 5690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (64W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +116%

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

0.62 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon HD 5690

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Feb 2011

GeForce 400

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

480

Shading Units

400

60

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Redwood

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

64W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

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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