NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 112.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

544 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +79%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

1024

60

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GM206

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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