NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6930
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6930

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and AMD Radeon HD 6930. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

301
Place in performance rating
249
7.61
Value for money (0-100)
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Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GF100
Code name
Cayman
Desktop
Type
Desktop
7 December 2010 (10 years ago)
Release date
1 December 2011
$499
Launch price (MSRP)
$180
$8.99 (0x MSRP)
Price now
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2.72
Value for money
no data
GF100
GPU code name
no data
Desktop
Market segment
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Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and AMD Radeon HD 6930 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

480
Pipelines
1280
700 MHz
Core clock speed
750 MHz
3,100 million
Transistor count
2,640 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
250 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
186 Watt
42 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
60.00
1,345.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
1,920.0 gflops
105 °C
Maximum GPU temperature
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480
CUDA cores
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480
Pipelines / CUDA cores
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3,100 million
Number of transistors
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250 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and AMD Radeon HD 6930.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
Length
220 mm
6-pin & 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
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SLI options
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16x PCI-E 2.0
Bus support
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4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Height
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and AMD Radeon HD 6930 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
1536 MB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
384 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
177.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
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Shared memory
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and AMD Radeon HD 6930, the size and number of monitors.

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
+
Multi monitor support
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+
HDCP
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2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
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Internal
Audio input for HDMI
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+
HDMI
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Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and AMD Radeon HD 6930 is the additional functionality.

+
3D Vision
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CUDA
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DirectX 11
DirectX 11
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and AMD Radeon HD 6930. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.2
OpenGL
4.4

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and AMD Radeon HD 6930 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 or AMD Radeon HD 6930 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
AMD Radeon HD 6930
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
AMD Radeon HD 6930
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
AMD Radeon HD 6930
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
AMD Radeon HD 6930
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
AMD Radeon HD 6930
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

More maximum RAM amount (1536 MB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (177.4 GB/s vs 153.6 GB/s)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6930

0.1% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1280 vs 480)

Less power consumption (186 Watt vs 250 Watt)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 or AMD Radeon HD 6930?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 6930 .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 versus AMD Radeon HD 6930 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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