
GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce RTX 3090 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce RTX 3090
GeForce GTX 480
4229
GeForce RTX 3090
27596
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce RTX 3090
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GF100
Ampere GA102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
September 2020
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1700 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
1400 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
10496
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
350 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
556.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
24 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
19500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
936.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.5
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2