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
GPU 1
GPU 2
1617
137
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
458
507
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark 1617 137
PassMark - G2D Mark 458 507

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Essentials

Architecture Fermi R500
Code name GF100 R580
Launch date 25 May 2010 24 January 2006
Place in performance rating 296 297
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

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

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

DirectX 12 API 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

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

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI