NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 +181%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

15

192

Shading Units

480

64

TMUs

60

28

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GF100

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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