AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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AMD Radeon R9 285X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +280%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

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GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

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

700 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

64

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

16.86 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GF100

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

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

375W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

2x 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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