GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon R9 Fury

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon R9 Fury. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon R9 Fury. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 480 Radeon R9 Fury
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 275 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin & 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 4 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon R9 Fury has 10% more power consumption, than GeForce GTX 480.
  • GeForce GTX 480 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon R9 Fury uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • GeForce GTX 480 has 1532 GB more memory, than Radeon R9 Fury.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • GeForce GTX 480 is build with Fermi architecture, and Radeon R9 Fury - with GCN 1.2.
  • GeForce GTX 480 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 Fury - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 480 is 1348 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 Fury.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 21−24 50−55
ultra / 1080p 12−14 30−35
QHD / 1440p 6−7 27−30
4K / 2160p 5−6 14−16
low / 720p 40−45 75−80
medium / 1080p 24−27 60−65
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 Fury in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 131% more, than GeForce GTX 480.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 480 Radeon R9 Fury
Architecture Fermi GCN 1.2
Code name GF100 Fiji
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 7 December 2010 16 June 2015
Pipelines 480 3584
Core clock speed 700 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz
Transistor count 3,100 million 8,900 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 42 billion/sec 224.0
Floating-point performance 1,345.0 gflops 7,168 gflops
Length 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
Memory bus width 384 Bit 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed 1848 MHz (3696 data rate) 500 MHz
Memory bandwidth 177.4 GB/s 512 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 6.3
OpenGL 4.2 4.5
OpenCL 1.1 2.0
Vulkan N/A +
CUDA +
FreeSync +
CUDA cores 480
Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0 PCIe 3.0
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
SLI options +
Multi monitor support +
HDMI + +
HDCP +
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI Internal
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Eyefinity +
HD3D +
PowerTune +
TrueAudio +
Mantle +
Bridgeless CrossFire +
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
DisplayPort support +
CrossFire +
VCE +
DDMA audio +
Compute units 56
AppAcceleration +
High bandwidth memory (HBM) +
LiquidVR +
TressFX +
UVD +
FRTC +
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