NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

2080 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 X2 +280%

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon R9 390 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 400

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

480

Shading Units

2560

60

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

160.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.120 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

640.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Grenada

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

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

Board Design

250W

TDP

580W

600 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 8-pin

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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