AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1266MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +40%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780

4.156 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480 +49%

4163

GeForce GTX 780

2784

Blender

Radeon RX 480 +9%

374

GeForce GTX 780

342

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 780

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

May 2013

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

863 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

902 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2304

144

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GK110

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GK110-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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