GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon HD 2900 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon HD 2900 XT
GeForce GTX 480
4229
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
GeForce GTX 480
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GF100
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
May 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
743 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
320
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
215 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
11.89
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
1656 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
106.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A