GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon R7 Graphics - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 480

Radeon R7 Graphics

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

GF100

Spectre

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

January 2014

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

980 MHz

Core clock speed

700 MHz

686 MHz

CUDA cores

480

-

Floating-point performance

1,345.0 gflops

526.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

2,410 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

512

Power consumption (TDP)

295 Watt

15 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

42 billion/sec

31.36

Memory type

GDDR5

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

System Shared

Memory bus width

384 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

1848 MHz (3696 data rate)

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.2

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.0

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131