GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs GeForce GTX 480
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1201MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
544 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
+82%
2460
GeForce GTX 480
1345
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1176 MHz
Base Clock
-
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
924 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
177.4GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
15
1024
Shading Units
480
64
TMUs
60
32
ROPs
48
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.03 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.06 GTexel/s
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1345 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GF100
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
GF100-375-A3
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
2.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
