NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+263%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
1.078 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
1664
Shading Units
512
104
TMUs
64
56
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.86 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.73 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1078 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
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
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GF100
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
398 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
