NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +380%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Dec 2018

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

1683 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

15

480

Shading Units

1920

60

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GP104

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

314 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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