Radeon HD 7970 and GeForce GTX 480 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970 vs GeForce GTX 480
Radeon HD 7970
5405
GeForce GTX 480
4229
Radeon HD 7970
GeForce GTX 480
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
GF100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2011
December 2010
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
6-pin & 8-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
700 MHz
CUDA cores
-
480
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
1,345.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
480
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
295 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
118.4
42 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
177.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-