GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 460
Summary
GeForce GTX 480
161%
GeForce GTX 460
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 480 |
| Around 61% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GTX 460 |
| 90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 480 . |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 480
The GeForce GTX 480 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 480 | | GeForce GTX 460 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF100 (GF100-375-A3) | vs | GF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 529 mm² | vs | 332 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,100 million | vs | 1,950 million |
| Shaders | 480 | vs | 336 |
| Compute Units | 15 | vs | 7 |
| Core clock | 701 MHz | vs | 675 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 60 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 480 | | GeForce GTX 460 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 384 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 924 MHz
3696 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1536 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 480 | | GeForce GTX 460 | |
|---|
| TDP | 250 watts | vs | 160 watts |
| Release Date | 26 Mar 2010 | vs | 12 Jul 2010 |
GeForce GTX 480
21.00 GP/s
GeForce GTX 460
9.45 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 480
42.10 GT/s
GeForce GTX 460
37.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 480
177.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 460
115.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 480
1345.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 460
907.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 480
5700
GeForce GTX 460
3530
Points (higher is better)