NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 6450

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 AMD Radeon HD 6450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6450 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 25.60GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6450 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (18W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +572%

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6450

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon HD 6450

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

480

Shading Units

160

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

2.500 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Caicos

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

18W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 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

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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