NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +723%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

352.3GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

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

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GF100

GP104-410-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

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

180W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 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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