AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

544 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (107W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +328%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2010

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

1024

Shading Units

480

64

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

48

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GF100

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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