GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce 9800 GX2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce GTX 480
4229
GeForce 9800 GX2
821
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce 9800 GX2
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF100
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
March 2008
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
6-pin & 8-pin
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
700 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
480
256 (128 per GPU)
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
2x 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
128
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
197 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
105 °C
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
76.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
128 (64 per GPU)
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
HDMIDual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
S/PDIF
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A