GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon R7 250 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon R7 250
GeForce GTX 480
4229
Radeon R7 250
1100
GeForce GTX 480
Radeon R7 250
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GF100
Oland XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
October 2013
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
-
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
716.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
384
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
25.20
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
72 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-