NVIDIA · Fermi (derived from codename prefix) · 2010
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GTX 480: 1,536 MB GDDR5, 250 W, 480 CUDA cores. Launched March 26, 2010 at $499.
- Memory
- 1,536 MB
- Power
- 250 W
- Bus width
- 384 bit
Memory1,536 MB
93 of 143 in GeForce GTX
Power250 W
11 of 154 by higher draw in GeForce GTX
CUDA cores480
105 of 158 in GeForce GTX
Launch price$499
22 of 92 in GeForce GTX
Current market
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Specifications
Memory
- Capacity
- 1,536 MB
- Memory type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 384 bit
- Memory clock
- 924 MHz
- Bandwidth
- 177.4 GB/s
Compute
- CUDA cores
- 480
- SM count
- 15
- TMUs
- 60
- ROPs
- 48
- FP32
- 1,345 GFLOPS
- FP64
- 168.1 GFLOPS
- Pixel fill rate
- 33.65 GP/s
- Texture fill rate
- 42.06 GT/s
Clocks
- Base clock
- 701 MHz
Board
- TDP
- 250 W
- Bus interface
- PCIe 2.0 x16
- External power required
- Yes
- Form factor
- desktop
- Launch MSRP
- 499 USD
Physical
- Architecture
- Fermi (derived from codename prefix)
- Codename
- GF100-375-A3
- Transistors
- 3.1 billion
- Die size
- 529 mm²
- Series
- GeForce GTX
- Launch date
- March 26, 2010
Not recorded by the source: generation, process and boost clock.
Die figure
Silicon, made visible
Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.
Catalog context
Within its series, the GeForce GTX 480 ranks 79th of 121 for FP32 throughput and 93rd of 143 for memory capacity. Its 250 W TDP is above the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.
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