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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 480 sales 26 March 2010 at a recommended price of $499 . This is Fermi architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 1.5 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.85 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 177.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm). 6-pin & 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 23.85 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

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General info

Of GeForce GTX 480's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

144

Perfomance to price

100.00

Architecture

Fermi

Code name

GF100

Type

Desktop

Release date

26 March 2010

Launch price (MSRP)

$499

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$71.99

of 4762.99 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 480's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 480's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

480

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

CUDA cores

480

Core clock speed

700 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

3,100 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

of 12

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

42 billion/sec

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

1,345.0 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 480's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Length

10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)

Height

4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)

Width

2-slot

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

SLI options

2-way, 3-way

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 480: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1.5 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

384 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

1848 MHz (3696 data rate)

of 11408 (TITAN Xp Collector's Edition Galactic Empire)

Memory bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 480.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

Multi monitor support

HDMI

HDCP

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 480. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision

CUDA

SLI

DirectX 11

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 480, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX 11, Shader 5.0

OpenGL

4.2

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 480. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

23.85

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

234990.00

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

4922.00

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

5014.00

3DMark Vantage Performance

40684.00

Unigine Heaven 3.0

4237.42

Passmark

4357

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

3650

Octane Render OctaneBench

Mining hashrate

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 480. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

117 Mh/s

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 480 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

99.87 %

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

99.75 %

NVIDIA Quadro M2200

98.28 %

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 480 from AMD is Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 6 positions in our rating.