GeForce GTX 480 and Quadro DCC - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 480

Quadro DCC

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Kelvin (2001−2003)

GPU code name

GF100

NV20 A5

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

December 2010

May 2001

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

700 MHz

200 MHz

CUDA cores

480

-

Floating-point performance

1,345.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

57 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

-

Power consumption (TDP)

295 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

42 billion/sec

0.8

Memory type

GDDR5

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

64 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1848 MHz (3696 data rate)

230 MHz

Memory bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

3.68 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

8.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.2

1.3

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A