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 RTX 3070 Mobile

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1560 MHz

TDP 115 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

13,300

92,939

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

2,380

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

86,768

passmark_directx_10

N/A

113

passmark_directx_11

N/A

138

passmark_directx_12

N/A

64

passmark_directx_9

N/A

160

passmark_g2d

N/A

641

passmark_g3d

N/A

15,309

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

6,827

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 480

RTX 3070 Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

480

5,120 +966.7%

Shaders

480

5,120 +966.7%

TMUs

60

160 +166.7%

ROPs

48

80 +66.7%

SM Count

15

40 +166.7%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1110 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1560 MHz

GPU Clock

701 MHz

—

Shader Clock

1401 MHz

—

Memory Clock

924 MHz 3.7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1536 MB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,536

8,192 +433.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

124.8 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

249.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1,345.0 GFLOPS

15.97 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)

249.6 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

15.97 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

40

Tensor Cores

—

160

Power

TDP

250 W

115 W

TDP (W)

250

115 -54.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

—

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi

Ampere

GPU Name

GF100

GA104

Generation

GeForce 400

GeForce 30 Mobile

Process Size

40 nm

8 nm

Transistors

3,100 million

17,400 million

Die Size

529 mm²

392 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

5.9M / mm²

44.4M / 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

—

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

—

Outputs

2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

499 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 200

GeForce 20 Mobile

Successor

GeForce 500

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