GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (197W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
+180%
1078
GeForce 9800 GX2
384
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Mar 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
134.4GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
16
512
Shading Units
128
64
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
16.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
33.73 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
1078 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
375W
TDP
197W
750 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
G92
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
