NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

1120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (228W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +102%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 400

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

480

Shading Units

1600

60

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Cypress

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

228W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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