NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 360 OEM 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 104.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 360 OEM +19%

1.613 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon R9 360 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 400

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

768

60

TMUs

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.80 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.613 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

100.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

85W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 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 Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Tobago

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

160 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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