AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2064 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +878%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 295

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2009

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

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

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

240

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

46.08 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

596.2 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GT200B

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

G200-401-B3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

289W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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