GeForce GTX 295 and GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 295

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GT200B

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2009

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

2x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

576 MHz

527 MHz

CUDA cores

480

-

CUDA cores per GPU

240

-

Floating-point performance

2x 596.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

512

Power consumption (TDP)

289 Watt

375 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

92.2 billion/sec

33.73

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1792 MB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

896 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

999 MHz

2.8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

223.8 GB/s

134.4 GB/s

Standard memory config per GPU

896 MB

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVIHDMI

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

+

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

+

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)

128bit

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