NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +178%

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

128

64

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

G80

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

171W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

1.0

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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