GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon HD 4860 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 480
Radeon HD 4860
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GF100
RV790
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
September 2009
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
896.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
959 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
640
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
130 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
22.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
3000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
96 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)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A