NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

10016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +2545%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

10496

Shading Units

480

328

TMUs

60

112

ROPs

48

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GF100

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

250W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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