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 965M
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
950 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 480
GTX 965M
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
—
924 MHz
Boost Clock
—
950 MHz
GPU Clock
701 MHz
—
Shader Clock
1401 MHz
—
Memory Clock
924 MHz
3.7 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 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
80.19 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
30.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
42.06 GTexel/s
60.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,345.0 GFLOPS
1.946 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)
60.80 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
250 W
—
TDP (W)
250
—
Suggested PSU
600 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
Fermi
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
GF100
GM204
Generation
GeForce 400
GeForce 900M
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
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 800M
Successor
GeForce 500
GeForce 10 Mobile