NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP 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 112.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP +56%

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 400

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

896

60

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

45W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

3 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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