GeForce GTX 480 and PlayStation 4 GPU - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 480

PlayStation 4 GPU

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

GF100

Liverpool

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

November 2013

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

700 MHz

800 MHz

CUDA cores

480

-

Floating-point performance

1,345.0 gflops

1,843 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

1152

Power consumption (TDP)

295 Watt

75 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

42 billion/sec

57.60

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1848 MHz (3696 data rate)

5500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

176.0 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)

11.1*

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.2

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.1