NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M vs ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M and ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition 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.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
- Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
- Around 36% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 625 MHz
- Around 87% higher texture fill rate: 18.7 billion / sec vs 10 GTexel / s
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
- 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
- 11.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1617 vs 137
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 25 May 2010 vs 24 January 2006 |
Core clock speed | 850 MHz vs 625 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 18.7 billion / sec vs 10 GTexel / s |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 90 nm |
Maximum memory size | 2 GB vs 512 MB |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 1617 vs 137 |
Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
- Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 1450 MHz vs 1200 MHz
- Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 507 vs 458
Specifications (specs) | |
Memory clock speed | 1450 MHz vs 1200 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 507 vs 458 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M | ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 1617 | 137 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 458 | 507 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M | ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Fermi | R500 |
Code name | GF100 | R580 |
Launch date | 25 May 2010 | 24 January 2006 |
Place in performance rating | 297 | 298 |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 850 MHz | 625 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 598.4 gflops | |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 90 nm |
Pipelines | 352 | |
Texture fill rate | 18.7 billion / sec | 10 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 100 Watt | 100 Watt |
Transistor count | 3,100 million | 384 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Laptop size | large | |
SLI options | 2-way | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | 1x 6-pin |
API support |
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DirectX | 12 API | 9.0c |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 2.0 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 512 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 76.8 GB / s | 46.4 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 256 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1200 MHz | 1450 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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