NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 +23%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

384bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

15

448

Shading Units

480

56

TMUs

60

40

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

640 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

GF100

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

144 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

2.0

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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