NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

2080 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +260%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

2560

60

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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