GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and Topaz - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Topaz

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GPU code name

GF100

Topaz

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Core clock speed

527 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

1,550 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

384

Power consumption (TDP)

375 Watt

Texture fill rate

33.73

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

2.8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

134.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170