NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 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 RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock2610MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (285W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +3618%

40.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

7680

Shading Units

512

240

TMUs

64

80

ROPs

48

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GF100

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

40 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

285W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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