NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 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 153.6GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

544 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850 +30%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

480

Shading Units

1024

60

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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