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 960
CORE STATE
GM206
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1178 MHz
TDP
120 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 480
GTX 960
Core Specs
Shading Units
480
1,024
+113.3%
Shaders
480
1,024
+113.3%
TMUs
60
64
+6.7%
ROPs
48
32
-33.3%
SM Count
15
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1178 MHz
GPU Clock
701 MHz
—
Shader Clock
1401 MHz
—
Memory Clock
924 MHz
3.7 Gbps effective
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1536 MB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
1,536
2,048
+33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
21.03 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
42.06 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,345.0 GFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
250 W
120 W
TDP (W)
250
120
-52.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Fermi
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
GF100
GM206
Generation
GeForce 400
GeForce 900
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3,100 million
2,940 million
Die Size
529 mm²
228 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
5.9M / mm²
12.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
CUDA
2.0
5.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
267 mm
10.5 inches
241 mm
9.5 inches
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
499 USD
199 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 200
GeForce 700
Successor
GeForce 500
GeForce 10