AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 +169%

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Mar 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

780 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

320

Shading Units

480

20

TMUs

60

8

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

31.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

GF100

-

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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