NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 75% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 400 MHz
26.3x more texture fill rate: 42 billion / sec vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
24x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 64 MB
3.7x more memory clock speed: 1848 MHz (3696 data rate) vs 500 MHz
83.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4107 vs 49
Around 91% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 445 vs 233

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 March 2010 vs 1 June 2004
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	42 billion / sec vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1848 MHz (3696 data rate) vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4107 vs 49
PassMark - G2D Mark	445 vs 233

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4107

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

445

233

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480	ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark	4107	49
PassMark - G2D Mark	445	233
Geekbench - OpenCL	13123
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	34.483
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	706.104
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.245
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	30.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	106.875
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5110
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3320
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5110
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3320
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480	ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Rage 9
Code name	GF100	M24
Launch date	26 March 2010	1 June 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$499
Place in performance rating	751	748
Price now	$71.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	61.35
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	400 MHz
CUDA cores	480
Floating-point performance	1,345.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Pipelines	480
Texture fill rate	42 billion / sec	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	16x PCI-E 2.0
Height	4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options	2-way, 3-way
Supplementary power connectors	6-pin & 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.2	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	177.4 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1848 MHz (3696 data rate)	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
SLI