GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 480

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

GF100

GP104

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

April 2017

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

1x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1733 MHz

Core clock speed

700 MHz

1607 MHz

CUDA cores

480

-

Floating-point performance

1,345.0 gflops

8,873 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

295 Watt

180 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

42 billion/sec

277.3

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5X

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1848 MHz (3696 data rate)

11008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

352.3 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

+

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

6.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.2

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131