NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1019MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690 +132%

3.13 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

May 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

1019 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

1536

60

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GK104

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GK104-355-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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