GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon HD 6950 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon HD 6950
GeForce GTX 480
4229
Radeon HD 6950
2693
GeForce GTX 480
Radeon HD 6950
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
GF100
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
December 2010
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
800 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
-
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
2,252.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
500 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
70.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-