NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 320MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 320 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 320GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 63.36GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 's Advantages

Lower TDP (143W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +489%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

0.228 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Feb 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

320MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

63.36GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

96

60

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

20

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

80 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.26 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.62 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

228.1 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

G80

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

G80-100-K0-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

143W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

1.0

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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