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GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon R9 M295X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 480 uses 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 card. It features 480 SPUs along with 60 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M295X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1375 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M295X 125 Watts
GeForce GTX 480 250 Watts
Difference: 125 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 480 will be 1% quicker than the Radeon R9 M295X overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480 177408 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M295X 176000 MB/sec
Difference: 1408 (1%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X will be a lot (more or less 129%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X 96000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480 42000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 54000 (129%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480 33600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X 24000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 9600 (40%)

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 M295X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2010 2014
Code Name GF100 Unknown
Memory 1536 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 3696 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 177408 MB/sec 176000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 42000 Mtexels/sec 96000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 33600 Mpixels/sec 24000 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 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 480

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Radeon R9 M295X

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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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