NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 250W)

Score

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon X1950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Feb 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

-

60

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

12

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

57W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x Molex

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

RV570

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

Fermi

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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