GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon RX 540
GeForce GTX 480
4229
Radeon RX 540
2872
GeForce GTX 480
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
GF100
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2010
March 2017
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
-
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
-
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
512
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
96 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)
12.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-
FreeSync
-
+