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 870M
CORE STATE
GK104
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
967 MHz
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_metal
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 480
GTX 870M
Core Specs
Shading Units
480
1,344
+180.0%
Shaders
480
1,344
+180.0%
TMUs
60
112
+86.7%
ROPs
48
24
-50.0%
SM Count
15
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
941 MHz
Boost Clock
—
967 MHz
GPU Clock
701 MHz
—
Shader Clock
1401 MHz
—
Memory Clock
924 MHz
3.7 Gbps effective
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1536 MB
3 GB
VRAM (MB)
1,536
3,072
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
120.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
768 KB
384 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
21.03 GPixel/s
27.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
42.06 GTexel/s
108.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,345.0 GFLOPS
2.599 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)
108.3 GFLOPS (1:24)
Power
TDP
250 W
100 W
TDP (W)
250
100
-60.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
Fermi
Kepler
GPU Name
GF100
GK104
Generation
GeForce 400
GeForce 800M
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3,100 million
3,540 million
Die Size
529 mm²
294 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
5.9M / mm²
12.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.2.175
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
CUDA
2.0
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
267 mm
10.5 inches
—
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Launch Price
499 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 200
GeForce 700M
Successor
GeForce 500
GeForce 900M