NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)
5408 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+2067%
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 480
1.345 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
-
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
924 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
177.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
15
5888
Shading Units
480
184
TMUs
60
64
ROPs
48
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.03 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.06 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1345 GFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GF100
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
GF100-375-A3
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
2.0
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
