GeForce GTX 480 and XGI Volari V8 Ultra - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 480
XGI Volari V8 Ultra
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
XG4 (2003−2005)
GPU code name
GF100
XG40
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
September 2003
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
350 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
110 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
-
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
2.800
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
16 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)
9.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
1.5
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A