NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XT 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 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2394MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

4896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT +3727%

51.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Nov 2022

GeForce 400

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1387 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2394 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

800.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

84

480

Shading Units

5376

60

TMUs

336

48

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

84

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

459.6 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

804.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

103.0 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

51.48 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.609 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Navi 31

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XT (215-145000156)

Fermi

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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