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 950M
CORE STATE
GM107
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1124 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 480
GTX 950M
Core Specs
Shading Units
480
640
+33.3%
Shaders
480
640
+33.3%
TMUs
60
40
-33.3%
ROPs
48
16
-66.7%
SM Count
15
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
993 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1124 MHz
GPU Clock
701 MHz
—
Shader Clock
1401 MHz
—
Memory Clock
924 MHz
3.7 Gbps effective
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1536 MB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
1,536
4,096
+166.7%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
384 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
28.80 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
21.03 GPixel/s
17.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
42.06 GTexel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,345.0 GFLOPS
1,438.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)
44.96 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
250 W
75 W
TDP (W)
250
75
-70.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
Fermi
Maxwell
GPU Name
GF100
GM107
Generation
GeForce 400
GeForce 900M
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3,100 million
1,870 million
Die Size
529 mm²
148 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
5.9M / mm²
12.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
CUDA
2.0
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
6.7 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
Length
267 mm
10.5 inches
—
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
499 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 200
GeForce 800M
Successor
GeForce 500
GeForce 10 Mobile