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GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon R9 M395X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 480 makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 700 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 924 MHz on this specific card. It features 480 SPUs as well as 60 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M395X, which features a core clock speed of 723 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M395X 125 Watts
GeForce GTX 480 250 Watts
Difference: 125 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 480 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M395X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480 177408 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M395X 160000 MB/sec
Difference: 17408 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M395X is a lot (about 120%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X 92544 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480 42000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 50544 (120%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is superior to the Radeon R9 M395X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480 33600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X 23136 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10464 (45%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 480 Radeon R9 M395X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2010 2015
Code Name GF100 Tonga
Memory 1536 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 723 MHz
Memory Speed 3696 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 177408 MB/sec 160000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 42000 Mtexels/sec 92544 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 33600 Mpixels/sec 23136 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 2048
Texture Mapping Units 60 128
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 480

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Radeon R9 M395X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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