NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

3104 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +683%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

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Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 400

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1156 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

56

480

Shading Units

3584

60

TMUs

224

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Vega 10

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

210W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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