AMD Radeon HD 7480D vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

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Combined performance score

GTS 450 Rev. 2
4.38
+508%

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 outperforms Radeon HD 7480D by 508% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking6251123
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Terascale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameGF116Trinity
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 March 2011 (13 years old)26 September 2012 (11 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$53
Current priceno data$215 (4.1x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores192128
Core clock speed783 MHz614 MHz
Boost clock speedno data724 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)106 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate25.066.400
Floating-point performance601.3 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed3608 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth57.73 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMINo outputs
HDMI+no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1no data

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD65−70
+491%
11
−491%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 4.38 0.72
Recency 15 March 2011 26 September 2012
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB System Shared
Chip lithography 40 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 106 Watt 65 Watt

The GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 7480D in performance tests.


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