AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce2 Ultra

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Aug 2000

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

230 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

64MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

7.360GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

-

144

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.000 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

NV15

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GeForce2 Ultra

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Celsius

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

180 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.025 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

88 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

7.0

4.6

OpenGL

1.5

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

-

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