NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 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 1070 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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

1440 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +380%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

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

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

480

120

TMUs

60

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GF100

GP104-200-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

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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