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

RTX A2000

CORE STATE GA106

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1200 MHz

TDP 70 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

13,300

73,310

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,345

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

69,089

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 480

RTX A2000

Core Specs

Shading Units

480

3,328 +593.3%

Shaders

480

3,328 +593.3%

TMUs

60

104 +73.3%

ROPs

48

48 0.0%

SM Count

15

26 +73.3%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

562 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1200 MHz

GPU Clock

701 MHz

—

Shader Clock

1401 MHz

—

Memory Clock

924 MHz 3.7 Gbps effective

1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1536 MB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,536

6,144 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

288.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

57.60 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1,345.0 GFLOPS

7.987 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)

124.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

7.987 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

26

Tensor Cores

—

104

Power

TDP

250 W

70 W

TDP (W)

250

70 -72.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

250 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi

Ampere

GPU Name

GF100

GA106

Generation

GeForce 400

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

40 nm

8 nm

Transistors

3,100 million

12,000 million

Die Size

529 mm²

276 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

5.9M / mm²

43.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

CUDA

2.0

8.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

167 mm 6.6 inches

Height

—

69 mm 2.7 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

499 USD

449 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 200

Quadro Turing

Successor

GeForce 500

Workstation Ada

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