NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +1784%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

46

512

Shading Units

5888

64

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

220W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GA104

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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