NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon R7 265

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD Radeon R7 265

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265 +40%

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon R7 265

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

1024

60

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

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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