Graphics card overview

GeForce GTX 480

Nvidia

GeForce GTX 480

1536 Mb GDDR5 Released 26 Mar 2010 DESKTOP

Core configuration

GPU	GF100
Architecture	Nvidia_Fermi
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs	480 : 60 : 48
Raytracing Cores	none
Performance	1345.00 GFLOPs

Memory configuration

Memory Size	1536 Mb
Memory Bus Width	384 bit
Memory Speed	924 MHz 3696 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth	177.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The GeForce GTX 480 is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 26 Mar 2010. The graphics card houses the GF100 die, based on the Nvidia_Fermi architecture which packs 3,100 million transistors on a 40 nm, 529 mm² die.

GeForce GTX 480 pros and cons

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards

	GeForce GTX 480	GeForce GTX 750 Compare	Radeon R7 260X Compare	GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Compare	Radeon HD 7850 Compare
Shader units	480	512	896	768	1024
ROPs	48	16	16	24	32
Graphics processor	GF100	GM107	Bonaire	GK106	Pitcairn
Process size	40 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Memory	1536 Mb GDDR5 (924 MHz 3696 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1253 MHz 5012 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1625 MHz 6500 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1502 MHz 6008 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1200 MHz 4800 MHz effective)
Memory bus width	384 bit	128 bit	128 bit	192 bit	256 bit
Memory bandwidth	177.00 Gb/s	80.20 Gb/s	104.00 Gb/s	144.00 Gb/s	154.00 Gb/s
Release date	26 Mar 2010	18 Feb 2014	8 Oct 2013	26 Mar 2013	5 Mar 2012