NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

1824 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 OEM +333%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 400

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

2304

60

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

232 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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