GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce 6800 LE - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce 6800 LE
GeForce GTX 480
4229
GeForce 6800 LE
112
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce 6800 LE
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
GF100
NV40
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
July 2004
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
1x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
300 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
222 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
-
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
2.400
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A