AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

2192 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +1507%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jul 2009

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

2304

Shading Units

112

144

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

362.9 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G92B

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

G92-240-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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