NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +191%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

1664

60

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GM204

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

148W

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

2x 6-pin

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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