General Information
Here is the release date, code name, core architecture, launch and current price. It is the general information to start learning NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480.
| Place in performance rating: |
307 |
| Value for money (0-100): |
7.61 |
| Architecture: |
Fermi |
| Code name: |
GF100 |
| Type: |
Desktop |
| Release date: |
7 December 2010 (11 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP): |
$499 |
| Price now: |
$12.99 (0x MSRP) |
| Value for money: |
1.68 |
| GPU code name: |
GF100 |
| Market segment: |
Desktop |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 - Technical Specifications
Here are key features that determine NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 performance in benchmarks and other apps. The higher the figures are, the better it is. Please pay attention to all the characteristics provided. For example, the clock frequency directly affects the high-speed, and processing data and performing calculations (e.g, for mining) depend on the number of transistors. Also, check the TDP figure, because modern graphics cards may require a powerful PSU.
| Pipelines: |
480 |
| Core clock speed: |
700 MHz |
| Transistor count: |
3,100 million |
| Manufacturing process technology: |
40 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP): |
250 Watt |
| Texture fill rate: |
42 billion/sec |
| Floating-point performance: |
1,345.0 gflops |
| Maximum GPU temperature: |
105 °C |
| CUDA cores: |
480 |
| Pipelines / CUDA cores: |
480 |
| Number of transistors: |
3,100 million |
| Thermal design power (TDP): |
250 Watt |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 - Dimensions and Compatibility
Nowadays, it is very important to know the dimensions - length, width and height of a desktop graphics card - and understand which power connector is included in the package. Also, please pay attention to the PCIe interface.
| Interface: |
PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Length: |
10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm) |
| Supplementary power connectors: |
6-pin & 8-pin |
| SLI options: |
+ |
| Bus support: |
16x PCI-E 2.0 |
| Height: |
4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm) |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 - GPU RAM Frequency and Speed
Graphics Card Ram is a key element in computing and data storage - type, size, clock frequency and bandwidth - that directly affect the speed of work in gaming and working apps, which are currently quite demanding on graphics card resources. Note please the memory standard. The higher it is, the better it is. Let's learn more about NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 video memory specifications.
| Memory type: |
GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount: |
1536 MB |
| Memory bus width: |
384 Bit |
| Memory clock speed: |
1848 MHz (3696 data rate) |
| Memory bandwidth: |
177.4 GB/s |
| Shared memory: |
- |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 - Port and Display Support
In most cases, today all the problems connector compatibility can be solved with adapters or backwards-compatible cables such as HDMI / DVI. But, for general information, you learn below which ports are supported by NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480.
| Display Connectors: |
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI |
| Multi monitor support: |
+ |
| HDCP: |
+ |
| Maximum VGA resolution: |
2048x1536 |
| Audio input for HDMI: |
Internal |
| HDMI: |
+ |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 - Technologies
Healthy competition drives progress, so each manufacturer tries to surprise its consumer with special technologies available in this graphics card. This can be useful in graphics or gaming apps.
| 3D Vision: |
+ |
| CUDA: |
+ |
| DirectX 11: |
DirectX 11 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 - API support
Here are general standards for DirectX and other unified complexes for the development of 3D images supported by NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 .
| DirectX: |
12 (11_0) |
| OpenGL: |
4.2 |
| Vulkan: |
N/A |
| Shader Model: |
5.1 |
| OpenCL: |
1.1 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 - Mining hashrates
| Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256): |
117 Mh/s |
Overall NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Gaming Performance
Find out to what extent NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 is suitable for gaming! We have compiled a database of popular games and their system requirements* that allows you to quickly and easily estimate its gaming performance at different screen resolutions. Graphics card gaming test is based on FPS. * There is a little margin error in the estimation of data.
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1280x720
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1920x1080
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1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
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2560x1440
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3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020)
low
1280x720
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1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
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2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Death Stranding (2020)
low
1280x720
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1920x1080
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1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
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2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
F1 2020 (2020)
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1280x720
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1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Gears Tactics (2020)
low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Doom Eternal (2020)
low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
| Legend |
| 5 |
Stutter – How graphics cards operate in the game is being examined for the time being. As per interpolation of the similar graphics cards showing low frame rates, the game is possible to lag. |
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May Stutter – How graphics cards operate in the game is being examined for the time being. As per interpolation of the similar graphics cards showing low frame rates, the game is possible to lag. |
| 30 |
Fluent – In considering all graphics benchmarks, the game speed is likely to be 25 fps or more. |
| 40 |
Fluent – In considering all graphics benchmarks, the game speed is likely to be 35 fps or more. |
| 60 |
Fluent – In considering all graphics benchmarks, the game speed is likely to be 58 fps or more. |
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May Run Fluently – How graphics cards operate in the game is being examined for the time being. As per interpolation of the similar graphics cards showing low frame rates, the game is possible to lag. |
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Uncertain – The graphics card testing has revealed a slower card might ensure a high and stable frame rate. |
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Uncertain – How graphics cards operate in the game is being examined for the time being. The interpolation in the same category is not possible. |
| The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results. |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 in Benchmarks
Let's sum up the review by comparing the benchmarks results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 5 competitive models similar in technical specifications. The first block is the overall result for all benchmarks, then all the others, which this particular model was tested on.
The higher the benchmark score, the faster a video card performs in graphics apps and modern games. If you have any additional questions, please leave them in the comments, we will definitely help!
Overall benchmark performance
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
3DMark Fire Strike for Graphics Cards helps you determine performance in a state-of-the-art synthetic test that consists of two levels - physical and combined testing.
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
The result of the 3DMark 11 benchmark evaluation supports tessellation, compute shaders and graphics card multithreading will show which graphics card model is better and faster in games. The higher the score of the video card in the 3DMark 11 benchmark, the better.
Passmark GPU
Passmark is an effective benchmark that displays true results on the speed of data processing by GPU cores. We present the results of the evaluation of the performance of a video card in the modern Passmark benchmark, which evaluates the performance of a video card using its own rendering algorithms. The higher the score, the more powerful the graphics card.
Octane Render OctaneBench
OctaneRender is a true, unbiased ray tracer that runs entirely on the GPU. Thanks to the Octane Render benchmark, you can easily determine how good a graphics card is in performance.
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