NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 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 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +225%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

15

1280

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

60

64

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GF100

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

314 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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