Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 480
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)
2336 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages
Lower TDP (250W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+326%
5733
GeForce GTX 480
1345
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Mar 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
924 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
384bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
177.4GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
2816
Shading Units
480
176
TMUs
60
64
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.03 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.06 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1345 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
250W
900 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GF100
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GF100-375-A3
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
6.3
Shader Model
5.1