NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 250W)

Score

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce 7950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 7 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

-

60

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

G71

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

G71-GT2-H-N-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.278 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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