NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +48%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 460

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jul 2010

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

7

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

336

60

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GF104

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

160W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

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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