NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 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 295W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1546MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

3616 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 +841%

12.66 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon RX Vega 64

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

1247 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1546 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

4096

60

TMUs

256

48

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.94 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

395.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

25.33 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.66 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

791.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

295W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Vega 10

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

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

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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