NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 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 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

1056 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +100%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

480

Shading Units

1536

60

TMUs

96

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

28.16 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Antilles

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 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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