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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480: specs and benchmarks

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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. 1536 MB 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 18.09 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

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General info

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

Place in performance rating

195

Value for money (0-100)

78.03

Architecture

Fermi

Code name

GF100

Type

Desktop

Release date

26 March 2010

Launch price (MSRP)

$499

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price now

$71.99

of 4403.52 (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 1620 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Transistor count

3,100 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

42 billion / sec

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

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)

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

SLI options

2-way, 3-way

Memory

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

1536 MB

of 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

384 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

1848 MHz (3696 data rate)

of 14000

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

12.0 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.2

of 4.6

Video card benchmark 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

18.09

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

5014

Passmark

4359

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

3650

Octane Render OctaneBench

Mining hashrates

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

GeForce GTX 480 performance compared to Dota 2 official system requirements.

GeForce GTX 480

minimum GeForce 8600 GT

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

99.56 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

98.95 %

AMD Radeon R7 360

96.24 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 480 from AMD is Radeon HD 6990, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our rating.