GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon HD 6970 X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 480
Radeon HD 6970 X2
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
GF100
Antilles
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
-
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
3x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
880 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
375 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
84.48
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)
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
176.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
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