GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 480

GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce GTX 480
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 480

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    433%
  • GeForce GTX 480
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070

100 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.
Around 333% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 480

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1070

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070

The GeForce GTX 1070 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce GTX 480
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-200-A1)vsGF100 (GF100-375-A3)
Fab Process16 nmvs40 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs529 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs3,100 million
Shaders1920vs480
Compute Units15vs15
Core clock1506 MHzvs701 MHz
ROPs64vs48
TMUs120vs60

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce GTX 480
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs924 MHz
3696 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce GTX 480
TDP150 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date10 Jun 2016vs26 Mar 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    96.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 480
    21.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    180.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 480
    42.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    256.30 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 480
    177.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    5783.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 480
    1345.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    24720
  • GeForce GTX 480
    5700

Points (higher is better)