NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1290MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)
4768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 480M
0.598 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q
+2109%
13.21 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2010
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 400M
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
780 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1290 MHz
600 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
76.80GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
11
SM Count
40
352
Shading Units
5120
44
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.350 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
103.2 GPixel/s
18.70 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
206.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
13.21 TFLOPS
598.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.21 TFLOPS
74.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
206.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
GA104
N11E-GTX-A3
GPU Variant
GA104-770-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
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
