NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +265%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

9

512

Shading Units

1152

64

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GP106

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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