NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

4128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +1626%

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

36

480

Shading Units

4608

60

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GB206

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GB206

Fermi

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

0

3.1 billion

Transistors

Unknown

529 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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