NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 153.6GB/s)

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

800 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500 +80%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

1280

60

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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