GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon RX 590
GeForce GTX 480
4229
Radeon RX 590
9695
GeForce GTX 480
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
GF100
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
November 2018
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
1469 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
175 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
256.0 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
FreeSync
-
+