NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1190MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power +35%

1.828 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1026 MHz

Base Clock

-

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

768

Shading Units

480

48

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

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1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF100

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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