NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +3%

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

7

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

336

64

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GF114

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

160W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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