AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +472%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

512

144

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GF100

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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