AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 375W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +439%

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

667 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

10.67GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

2

Compute Units

-

160

Shading Units

512

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

5.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

200.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

GF100

Caicos PRO

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

375W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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