NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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

5408 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +1410%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

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GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 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

46

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

5888

60

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GA104

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

220W

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 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

6.6

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