GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon RX 470D - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 480

Radeon RX 470D

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

GF100

Ellesmere

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

October 2016

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

1x 6-pin

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1206 MHz

Core clock speed

700 MHz

926 MHz

CUDA cores

480

-

Floating-point performance

1,345.0 gflops

4,322 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

295 Watt

120 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

42 billion/sec

135.1

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1848 MHz (3696 data rate)

6600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

211.2 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131