NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

4384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +1104%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Feb 2022

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

38

480

Shading Units

4864

60

TMUs

152

48

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GA103S

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GA103-200-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

Unknown

529 mm²

Die Size

496 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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