GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon HD 7870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon HD 7870
GeForce GTX 480
4229
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce GTX 480
Radeon HD 7870
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GF100
Pitcairn XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
March 2012
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
1000 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
2800 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
175 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
80.00
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)
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131