Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GT 440

Radeon RX 480
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 480
GeForce GT 440
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2011
GeForce GT 440

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 480
    1535%
  • GeForce GT 440
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 480

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1435% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 440

85 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 480 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 480

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 480

The Radeon RX 480 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 480GeForce GT 440
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs585 million
Shaders2304vs96
Compute Units36vs2
Core clock1120 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs144vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 480GeForce GT 440
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 480GeForce GT 440
TDP150 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs1 Feb 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 480
    40.50 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 440
    3.24 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 480
    182.30 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 440
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 480
    256.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 440
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 480
    5834.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 440
    311.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 480
    18430
  • GeForce GT 440
    1200

Points (higher is better)