GeForce GTX 480 and Graphics Ultra - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Ultra

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Mach (1992−1997)

GPU code name

GF100

Mach8

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

1992

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

ISA 16 Bit

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

700 MHz

10 MHz

CUDA cores

480

-

Floating-point performance

1,345.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

800 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

-

Power consumption (TDP)

295 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

42 billion/sec

-

Memory type

GDDR5

VRAM

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

1 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

32 Bit

Memory clock speed

1848 MHz (3696 data rate)

10 MHz

Memory bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

40 MB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

1x VGA

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

N/A

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.2

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A