AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

AMD Radeon R9 390

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 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 390 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

2080 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390 +280%

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Mar 2010

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

2560

Shading Units

480

160

TMUs

60

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

250W

600 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 Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

GF100

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

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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