GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

CORE STATE GF100

VRAM 1536 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

13,300

28,528

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

31,001

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 480

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

480

1,664 +246.7%

Shaders

480

1,664 +246.7%

TMUs

60

104 +73.3%

ROPs

48

56 +16.7%

SM Count

15

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1050 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

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,536

4,096 +166.7%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1,345.0 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

250 W

148 W

TDP (W)

250

148 -40.8%

Suggested PSU

600 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GF100

GM204

Generation

GeForce 400

GeForce 900

Process Size

40 nm

28 nm

Transistors

3,100 million

5,200 million

Die Size

529 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

5.9M / mm²

13.1M / 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

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 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

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 200

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 500

GeForce 10

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