Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 295 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GTX 295
Radeon RX 480
8883
GeForce GTX 295
1242
Radeon RX 480
GeForce GTX 295
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
GT200B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
January 2009
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
6-pin & 8-pin
SLI options
-
+
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
-
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
576 MHz
CUDA cores
-
480
CUDA cores per GPU
-
240
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
2x 596.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
240
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
289 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
182.3
92.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1792 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
896 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
999 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
223.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
896 MB
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Two Dual Link DVIHDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
2.0
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
DirectX® 12
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
2.1
Shader Model
6.4
4.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
-
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
n/a
-
High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)
-
128bit
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-