GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GT 620

GeForce GTX 480
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GT 620
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 May 2012
GeForce GT 620

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 480
    780%
  • GeForce GT 620
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 480

Around 680% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 620

201 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 480 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 480

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 480

The GeForce GTX 480 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 480GeForce GT 620
GPU NameGF100 (GF100-375-A3)vsGF108 (GF108-100-KB-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size529 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors3,100 millionvs585 million
Shaders480vs96
Compute Units15vs2
Core clock701 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs48vs4
TMUs60vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 480GeForce GT 620
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width384 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed924 MHz
3696 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 480GeForce GT 620
TDP250 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2010vs15 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 480
    21.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 620
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 480
    42.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 620
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 480
    177.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 620
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 480
    1345.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 620
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 480
    5700
  • GeForce GT 620
    730

Points (higher is better)