
GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
GF100
GK104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
November 2013
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
797 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
771 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
2,448 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
122 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
102.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126