AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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AMD Radeon R9 285X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +205%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

480

128

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GF100

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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