NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock980MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Ti +95%

2.634 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

980 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

1344

60

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

24

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GK104

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GK104-300-KD-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

2.0

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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