NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1518MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB +73%

2.332 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1392 MHz

Base Clock

-

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

15

768

Shading Units

480

48

TMUs

60

24

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GF100

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

132 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

6.1

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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