NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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

Lower TDP (215W vs 375W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition +1%

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

384bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

16

448

Shading Units

512

56

TMUs

64

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

16.86 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

215W

TDP

375W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

GF100

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

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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