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GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 480 has a GPU core speed of 700 MHz, and the 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 924 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 480 Stream Processors, 60 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which comes with a core clock speed of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G 110 Watts
GeForce GTX 480 250 Watts
Difference: 140 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 4G should be 1% faster than the GeForce GTX 480 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G 179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 480 177408 MB/sec
Difference: 1792 (1%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is much (more or less 49%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G 62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480 42000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 20400 (49%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 480 is a small bit (more or less 8%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480 33600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G 31200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2400 (8%)

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 R7 370 4G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2010 June 2015
Code Name GF100 Trinidad
Memory 1536 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Speed 3696 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 177408 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 42000 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 33600 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 1024
Texture Mapping Units 60 64
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 480

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Radeon R7 370 4G

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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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