GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
1078
GeForce GTX 970
+263%
3920
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
134.4GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
-
512
Shading Units
1664
64
TMUs
104
48
ROPs
56
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
16.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
33.73 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
1078 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
375W
TDP
148W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
GM204
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.0
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
