GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon R9 390
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 480 Advantages
Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)
Radeon R9 390 Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)
2080 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 480
1345
Radeon R9 390
+280%
5120
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jun 2015
GeForce 400
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
924 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
512bit
177.4GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
15
SM Count
-
480
Shading Units
2560
60
TMUs
160
48
ROPs
64
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
21.03 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
42.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
160.0 GTexel/s
1345 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.120 TFLOPS
168.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
640.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
275W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
Grenada
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
Grenada PRO
(215-0880030)
(215-0880030)
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
