NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 PRO AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (41W vs 250W)

Score

GeForce GTX 480

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Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

390 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.48GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

-

60

TMUs

4

48

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

RV530

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

RV530 PRO (215CADAKA24FG)

Fermi

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

41W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

Floppy

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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