AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 315 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

2288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +12864%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce 315 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce 315 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Feb 2011

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

16

144

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GT218

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GT218-300-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

33W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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