NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GF100 GK104
GPU variant GF100-375-A3 N13E-GTX2-A2
Architecture Fermi Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 3,100 million 3,540 million
Die size 529 mm² 294 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 26th, 2010
Generation GeForce 400
Production End-of-life
Launch price 499 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 84 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 200
Successor GeForce 500

Clocks

GPU clock 701 MHz 719 MHz
Shader clock 1401 MHz
Memory clock 924 MHz 3.7 Gbps effective 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1536 MB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 177.4 GB/s 160.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 480 1536
TMUs 60 128
ROPs 48 32
SM count 15
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per SMX)
Cache L2 768 KB 512 KB
SMX count 8

Performance

Pixel rate 21.03 GPixel/s 23.01 GPixel/s
Texture rate 42.06 GTexel/s 92.03 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 1,345 GFLOPS 2.209 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 168.1 GFLOPS (1:8) 92.03 GFLOPS (1:24)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches
TDP 250 W 122 W
Suggested PSU 600 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board number P1022

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.1
CUDA 2.0 3.0
Shader model 5.1 5.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Oct 23rd, 2012
Generation GeForce 600M
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 500M
Successor GeForce 700M

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