
GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GF100
GF110
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
June 2011
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
772 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
1,581 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
512
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
244 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
49.41
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
4008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
192.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A