ATI Radeon HD 4860 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4860

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 +50%

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Mar 2010

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

640

Shading Units

480

32

TMUs

60

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

896.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

179.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

GF100

RV790 GT

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

282 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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