NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W 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 +35%

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 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

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

480

48

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF100

GM206-250-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

Board Design

90W

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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