NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock1708MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+265%
3.935 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
1.078 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
9
SM Count
16
1152
Shading Units
512
72
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.86 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.73 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1078 GFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
375W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
GF100
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
Pascal
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
2.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
