AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +441%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Unknown

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

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

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

2304

Shading Units

512

144

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GF100

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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