GeForce GTX 480M: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GTX 480M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.74% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
Contents
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 480M sales 25 May 2010. This is a Fermi architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 76.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 100 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 480M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 733 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 3.01 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 25 May 2010 (15 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTX 480M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 480M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 352 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 425 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 3,100 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 100 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 18.70 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.5984 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 44 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 704 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 480M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | large | |
| Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | |
| SLI options | + |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 480M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1200 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 76.8 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 480M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 480M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 API | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 480M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 480M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| 900p | 33 | |
| Full HD | 41 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low
| Counter-Strike 2 | 16−18 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 9−10 |
Full HD
Medium
| Battlefield 5 | 16−18 | |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 16−18 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 12−14 | |
| Fortnite | 21−24 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 18−20 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 10−12 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 9−10 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 16−18 | |
| Valorant | 50−55 |
Full HD
High
| Battlefield 5 | 16−18 | |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 16−18 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 70−75 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Dota 2 | 35−40 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 12−14 | |
| Fortnite | 21−24 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 18−20 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 10−12 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 12−14 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 9−10 | |
| Metro Exodus | 7−8 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 16−18 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 12−14 | |
| Valorant | 50−55 |
Full HD
Ultra
| Battlefield 5 | 16−18 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Dota 2 | 35−40 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 12−14 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 18−20 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 9−10 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 16−18 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 12−14 | |
| Valorant | 50−55 |
Full HD
Epic
| Fortnite | 21−24 |
1440p
High
| Counter-Strike 2 | 8−9 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 30−33 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 4−5 | |
| Metro Exodus | 2−3 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 30−35 | |
| Valorant | 40−45 |
1440p
Ultra
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 7−8 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 10−11 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 4−5 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6 |
1440p
Epic
| Fortnite | 8−9 |
4K
High
| Grand Theft Auto V | 16−18 | |
| Valorant | 20−22 |
4K
Ultra
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2 | |
| Dota 2 | 12−14 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 3−4 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 5−6 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 4−5 |
4K
Epic
| Fortnite | 4−5 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 480M is Radeon R9 M275X, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 480M:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 480M according to our statistics.
