GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon 8500
GeForce GTX 480
4229
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce GTX 480
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
GF100
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
August 2001
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
275 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
-
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
23 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
2.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
8.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A