NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe +222%

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 400

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

885 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

10

480

Shading Units

1280

60

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GA107

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

Unknown

529 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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