
GeForce GTX 480M and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 480M
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N11E-GTX-A3
GF116
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2010
March 2011
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
425 MHz
783 MHz
Floating-point performance
598.4 gflops
601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
352
192
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
18.7 billion/sec
25.06
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
3608 MHz
Memory bandwidth
76.8 GB/s
57.73 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
12 API
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A