NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 ATI Radeon HD 4860

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +20%

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

Radeon HD 4860

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

512

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

896.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

179.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

RV790

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

RV790 GT

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

130W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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