GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
CORE STATE
GF100
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 590
CORE STATE
GF110
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
365 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi 2.0
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2011
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 480
GTX 590
Core Specs
Shading Units
480
512
+6.7%
Shaders
480
512
+6.7%
TMUs
60
64
+6.7%
ROPs
48
48
0.0%
SM Count
15
16
+6.7%
Clocks
GPU Clock
701 MHz
608 MHz
Shader Clock
1401 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory Clock
924 MHz
3.7 Gbps effective
854 MHz
3.4 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1536 MB
1536 MB
VRAM (MB)
1,536
1,536
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
164.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
768 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
21.03 GPixel/s
19.46 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
42.06 GTexel/s
38.91 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,345.0 GFLOPS
1,244.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)
155.5 GFLOPS (1:8)
Power
TDP
250 W
365 W
TDP (W)
250
365
+46.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
750 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Fermi
Fermi 2.0
GPU Name
GF100
GF110
Generation
GeForce 400
GeForce 500
Process Size
40 nm
40 nm
Transistors
3,100 million
3,000 million
Die Size
529 mm²
520 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
5.9M / mm²
5.8M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
CUDA
2.0
2.0
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
267 mm
10.5 inches
279 mm
11 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
499 USD
699 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 200
GeForce 400
Successor
GeForce 500
GeForce 600