NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 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 950 Low Power 's Advantages
Boost Clock1190MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 375W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
+69%
1.828 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
1.078 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
-
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
768
Shading Units
512
48
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.86 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.73 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1078 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
375W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GF100
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
228 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
5.2
CUDA
2.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
