AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

800 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +80%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Mar 2010

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GF100

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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