GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon HD 5970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon HD 5970
GeForce GTX 480
4229
Radeon HD 5970
2350
GeForce GTX 480
Radeon HD 5970
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GF100
Hemlock
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
November 2009
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
725 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
2x 2,320.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
294 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
58.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A