NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +362%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 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

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

64

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

375W

450 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

GM204-400-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

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