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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Processor
GF100
Cores
480
TMUs
60
ROPs
48
Memory Size
1536 MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Bus Width
384 bit
GPU Chip
GPU
I/O
I/O
Bottom
Bottom
PCB Front
PCB Front
PCB Back
PCB Back
The GeForce GTX 480 was a high-end graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on March 26th, 2010. Built on the 40 nm process, and based on the GF100 graphics processor, in its GF100-375-A3 variant, the card supports DirectX 12. Even though it supports DirectX 12, the feature level is only 11_0, which can be problematic with newer DirectX 12 titles. The GF100 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 529 mm² and 3,100 million transistors. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce GTX 480 Core 512, which uses the same GPU but has all 512 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the GeForce GTX 480 to reach the product's target shader count. It features 480 shading units, 60 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs. NVIDIA has paired 1,536 MB GDDR5 memory with the GeForce GTX 480, which are connected using a 384-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 701 MHz, memory is running at 924 MHz (3.7 Gbps effective).
Being a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 draws power from 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 250 W maximum. Display outputs include: 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a. GeForce GTX 480 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 interface. The card measures 267 mm in length, and features a dual-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 499 US Dollars.

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GF100
GPU Variant
GF100-375-A3
Architecture
Fermi
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
Transistors
3,100 million
Density
5.9M / mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Chip Package
BGA-1980

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 26th, 2010
Generation
GeForce 400
Predecessor
GeForce 200
Successor
GeForce 500
Production
End-of-life
Launch Price
499 USD
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews
84 in our database

Relative Performance

GeForce RTX 5090
2319%
GeForce RTX 4090
1769%
GeForce RTX 5080
1528%
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
1364%
GeForce RTX 4080
1353%
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
1352%
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
1333%
Radeon RX 9070 XT
1273%
Radeon RX 7900 XT
1164%
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
1143%
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
1142%
Radeon RX 9070
1141%
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
1045%
GeForce RTX 5070
1035%
GeForce RTX 3090
1020%
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
1006%
GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
974%
Radeon RX 7900 GRE
959%
Radeon RX 6950 XT
943%
GeForce RTX 4070
930%
Radeon RX 6900 XT
921%
GeForce RTX 3080
906%
Radeon RX 7800 XT
904%
Radeon RX 6800 XT
872%
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
809%
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
804%
Radeon RX 7700 XT
792%
Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB
768%
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
767%
Radeon RX 6800
741%
Radeon RX 6750 XT
736%
Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB
725%
GeForce RTX 3070
717%
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
711%
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB
708%
GeForce RTX 5060
697%
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
628%
Radeon RX 6700 XT
617%
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
573%
Radeon RX 7600 XT
568%
GeForce RTX 4060
566%
Arc B580
565%
GeForce RTX 5050
551%
GeForce RTX 2080
547%
Radeon RX 6650 XT
534%
Radeon RX 7600
534%
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
508%
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
503%
Arc A770
502%
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
484%
Radeon RX 6600 XT
477%
Radeon VII
476%
Arc A750
466%
Radeon RX 5700 XT
456%
GeForce RTX 2070
449%
Radeon RX 6600
429%
Arc A580
417%
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
416%
Radeon RX Vega 64
398%
GeForce RTX 2060
385%
Radeon RX 5700
384%
GeForce GTX 1080
376%
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
369%
Radeon RX 5600 XT
366%
Radeon RX Vega 56
348%
GeForce GTX 1070
335%
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
317%
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
317%
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
300%
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
299%
Radeon R9 FURY X
295%
GeForce GTX 1660
292%
Radeon RX 590
276%
Radeon R9 FURY
269%
GeForce GTX 980
265%
GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
263%
Radeon RX 6500 XT
259%
Radeon RX 5500 XT
257%
Radeon RX 580
255%
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
249%
Radeon R9 390X
245%
GeForce GTX 690
242%
Radeon RX 480
240%
Radeon HD 7990
239%
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
235%
GeForce GTX 970
229%
Radeon R9 290X
228%
Radeon R9 390
224%
Radeon RX 570
222%
Radeon R9 290
210%
Radeon RX 470
207%
GeForce GTX 1650
195%
Radeon RX 6400
191%
Arc A380
189%
GeForce GTX 780
188%
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
170%
GeForce GTX 590
170%
Radeon R9 280X
168%
Radeon HD 6990
164%
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
156%
GeForce GTX 680
152%
Radeon R9 380
151%
Radeon HD 7970
151%
GeForce GTX 770
150%
Radeon R9 285
149%
GeForce GTX 960
145%
GeForce GTX 670
141%
Radeon HD 5970
127%
GeForce GTX 1630
127%
Radeon HD 7950
125%
GeForce GTX 1050
125%
GeForce GTX 760
124%
GeForce GTX 580
124%
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
123%
Radeon R9 270X
122%
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
119%
GeForce GTX 950
118%
Radeon RX 560
111%
GeForce GTX 570
109%
GeForce GTX 660
109%
Radeon RX 460
108%
Radeon R7 370
108%
Radeon HD 6970
105%
GeForce GTX 480
100%
Radeon HD 7850
98%
GeForce GTX 295
96%
Radeon HD 6950
93%
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
93%
Radeon HD 4870 X2
91%
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
91%
Radeon HD 5870
88%
Radeon HD 6870
82%
GeForce GTX 470
79%
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
76%
Radeon HD 5850
75%
GeForce GTX 285
70%
Radeon HD 6850
68%
GeForce GTX 280
64%
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
64%
GeForce GTX 275
64%
GeForce GT 1030
63%
GeForce GTX 460
62%
Radeon HD 4890
60%
Radeon HD 6790
59%
Radeon HD 5830
56%
GeForce GTX 650
53%
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
52%
Radeon HD 4870
52%
GeForce GTX 260
51%
Radeon HD 5770
50%
Radeon HD 7750
50%
Radeon HD 5750
44%
GeForce GTS 450
42%
GeForce GTS 250
41%
Radeon HD 4850
40%
Radeon HD 4770
38%
Radeon HD 4830
36%
Radeon HD 6670
34%
GeForce 9800 GT
33%
GeForce GT 640
32%
Radeon HD 5670
30%
GeForce 9600 GT
28%
GeForce GT 240
24%
GeForce GT 440
24%
Radeon HD 4670
23%
Radeon HD 5570
21%
GeForce GT 430
21%
GeForce GT 220
16%
GeForce GT 520
13%
Radeon HD 6450
12%
Radeon HD 5450
10%
Radeon HD 4550
8%
GeForce 9400 GT
7%
GeForce 210
5%
Based on TPU review data: "Performance Summary" at 1920x1080, 4K for RTX 3080 and faster.

Clock Speeds

GPU Clock
701 MHz
Shader Clock
1401 MHz
Memory Clock
924 MHz
3.7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size
1536 MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384 bit
Bandwidth
177.4 GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
480
TMUs
60
ROPs
48
SM Count
15
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
21.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
42.06 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1,345.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)

Board Design

Slot Width
Dual-slot
Length
267 mm
10.5 inches
TDP
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board Number
P1022 SKU 0000

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
CUDA
2.0
Shader Model
5.1

GF100 GPU Notes

PureVideo HD: VP4
VDPAU: Feature Set C

GF100 has 4 GPCs each capable of 8 pixels per clock. This limits complete GPU to 32 pixels per clock and because of that it can't feed all 48 ROPs when they all require data at the same time.
Additional ROPs however can be used for MSAA (because it doesn't require additional data from rasterizers, while giving more work to ROPs.)

Latest Drivers:
Windows 2000:
Quadro Release 261.19

Windows XP / Server 2003 x64:
GeForce Release 368.81
Quadro Release R319 U2 (321.01)
Tesla Release 340.62 / R319 U2 (321.01)

Windows Vista:
GeForce Release 365.19
Quadro Release R346 U7 (348.40)
Tesla Release 340.84

Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 (x32 / x64):
GeForce Release 391.35
Quadro Release R375 U11 (377.83)
Tesla Release 340.84 / 412.29

Retail boards based on this design (17)

Name GPU Clock Memory Clock Other Changes
701 MHz 924 MHz
701 MHz 924 MHz
701 MHz 924 MHz
752 MHz 950 MHz Single-slot, 2x DVI 1x HDMI
726 MHz 950 MHz
726 MHz 950 MHz
701 MHz 924 MHz
821 MHz 950 MHz 279 mm/11 inches
760 MHz 950 MHz
701 MHz 924 MHz
701 MHz 924 MHz
701 MHz 924 MHz
750 MHz 1000 MHz 305 mm/12 inches, 2x DVI 1x HDMI 1x DisplayPort
701 MHz 924 MHz 265 mm/10.4 inches
701 MHz 924 MHz
701 MHz 924 MHz
756 MHz 950 MHz
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