GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTX 480
4229
GeForce GTX 260
1260
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GTX 260
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
GF100
GT200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
June 2008
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
700 MHz
576 MHz
CUDA cores
480
192
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
476.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
192
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
182 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
105 °C
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
36.9 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
896 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
999 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
111.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Dual Link DVIHDTV
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