NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480: specs and benchmarks
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Advices and comments
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 21.58 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.
General info
Of GeForce GTX 480's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
25.00
Architecture
Fermi
Code name
GF100
Type
Desktop
Release date
26 March 2010
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.
CUDA cores
480
Transistor count
3,100 million
of 21100
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
of 7
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
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
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
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
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
21.58
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
3650
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
5014
Passmark
4360
Octane Render OctaneBench
54
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 480. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
117 Mh/s
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 480 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 480 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
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 higher by 25 positions in our rating.
