NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GF100GPU NameGF116
N11E-GTX-A3Model numberGF116-200-KA-A1
FermiArchitectureFermi 2.0
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size40 nm
3,100 millionTransistors1,170 million
529 mm²Die Size238 mm²

Graphics Card

May 25th, 2010Release DateJul 11th, 2012
GeForce 400MFamilyGeForce 400
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 300MPredecessorGeForce 200
MXM-B (3.0)Bus InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

2 GBMemory Size1024 MB
GDDR5Memory TypeDDR3
256 bitMemory Bus128 bit
76.80 GB/sBandwidth22.40 GB/s

Performance

9.350 GPixel/sPixel fillrate4.698 GPixel/s
18.70 GTexel/sTexture fillrate18.79 GTexel/s
598.4 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance451.0 GFLOPS
74.80 GFLOPS (1:8)FP64 (double) performance37.58 GFLOPS (1:12)

Clock Speeds

600 MHz
2.4 Gbps effective
Memory Clock700 MHz
1400 Mbps effective
425 MHzGPU Clock783 MHz

Render Config

352Shading Units144
44TMUs24
32ROPs16
64 KB (per SM)L1 Cache64 KB (per SM)
512 KBL2 Cache256 KB
11SM Count3

Board Design

MXM ModuleSlot WidthDual-slot
100 WThermal design power (TDP)106 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI
P1028Board NumberP1060

API support

12 (11_0)DirectX12 (11_0)
4.6OpenGL4.6
1.1OpenCL1.1
N/AVulkanN/A
5.1Shader Model5.1
2.0CUDA2.1