NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +1394%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

May 2010

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

4

480

Shading Units

32

60

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

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

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

G96C

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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