NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 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 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 +48%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

15

336

Shading Units

480

56

TMUs

60

24

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

GF100

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Fermi

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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