GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon HD 8970 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 8970 OEM Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)
1568 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 480
1345
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
+181%
3789
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jan 2013
GeForce 400
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
924 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
177.4GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
15
SM Count
-
480
Shading Units
2048
60
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
21.03 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
42.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
1345 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
168.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
250W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT
(215-0821060)
(215-0821060)
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
