NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +123%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

1024

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF100

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

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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