GeForce 9100 vs Radeon RX 480

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking247not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation15.63no data
Power efficiency10.31no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameEllesmereC78
GCN generation4th Genno data
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date29 June 2016 (8 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores230416
Compute units36no data
Core clock speed1120 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed1266 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate182.34.000
Floating-point processing power5.834 TFLOPS0.0384 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs1448

Form factor & 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).

Bus supportn/ano data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

VRAM capacity and type

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 amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed8000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth224 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity+-
HDMI2.0-
DisplayPort support1.4HDR-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAccelerationn/a-
CrossFire+-
Enduron/a-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3Dn/a-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudion/a-
ZeroCore+-
UVD+-
VCE+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 1211.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.44.0
OpenGL4.53.3
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan+N/A
Mantlen/a-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RX 480 8618
+10540%
GeForce 9100 81

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 June 2016 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 14 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 40 Watt

RX 480 has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

GeForce 9100, on the other hand, has 275% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 and GeForce 9100. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 480
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