NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 +35%

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1024 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

768

60

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GM206

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

90W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

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