NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI: specs and benchmarks

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 480M SLI sales 25 May 2010. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Fermi architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 100 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 480M SLI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	574
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	4.45	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	N11E-GTX-A3
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	25 May 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	704	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	425 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors	6000 Million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 480M SLI 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

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VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 480M SLI: 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	4 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 480M SLI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 480M SLI 6.48

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.

GTX 480M SLI 4229

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.

GTX 480M SLI 16500

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 480M SLI 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	61
Full HD	67

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

10−11

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	16−18
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	8−9
Battlefield 5	18−20
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11
Far Cry 5	14−16
Far Cry New Dawn	18−20
Forza Horizon 4	40−45
Hitman 3	12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn	35−40
Metro Exodus	18−20
Red Dead Redemption 2	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	21−24
Watch Dogs: Legion	50−55

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	16−18
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	8−9
Battlefield 5	18−20
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11
Far Cry 5	14−16
Far Cry New Dawn	18−20
Forza Horizon 4	40−45
Hitman 3	12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn	35−40
Metro Exodus	18−20
Red Dead Redemption 2	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	21−24
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	20−22
Watch Dogs: Legion	50−55

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	16−18
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	8−9
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11
Far Cry 5	14−16
Forza Horizon 4	40−45
Hitman 3	12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn	35−40
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	21−24
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	20−22
Watch Dogs: Legion	50−55

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

18−20

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	12−14
Far Cry New Dawn	10−11

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	6−7
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4
Far Cry 5	7−8
Forza Horizon 4	21−24
Hitman 3	10−11
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16
Metro Exodus	6−7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	6−7
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

10−12

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	5−6
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5
Hitman 3	3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20
Metro Exodus	3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4
Cyberpunk 2077	0−1
Far Cry 5	3−4
Forza Horizon 4	7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	1−2
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

7−8

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 480M SLI's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.

Radeon 660M 101.7

GeForce GTX 560M SLI 100.62

GeForce GTX 850M 100.62

GeForce GTX 480M SLI 100

UHD Graphics P630 98.77

GeForce MX330 97.22

GeForce MX250 96.45

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 480M SLI is Radeon 660M, which is faster by 2% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.