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GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 590

Intro

The GeForce GTX 480 features clock speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 924 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 480 SPUs along with 60 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 590, which comes with a clock speed of 607 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 855 MHz. It also features a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 512 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 590 6680 points
GeForce GTX 480 3650 points
Difference: 3030 (83%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 480 250 Watts
GeForce GTX 590 365 Watts
Difference: 115 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 590 should be 85% faster than the GeForce GTX 480 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590 328320 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 480 177408 MB/sec
Difference: 150912 (85%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 should be much (more or less 85%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590 77696 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480 42000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 35696 (85%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 590 is superior to the GeForce GTX 480, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590 58272 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 480 33600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 24672 (73%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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GeForce GTX 480

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 480 GeForce GTX 590
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 2010 March 2011
Code Name GF100 GF110
Memory 1536 MB 1536 MB (x2)
Core Speed 700 MHz 607 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 3696 MHz 3420 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 365 watts
Bandwidth 177408 MB/sec 328320 MB/sec
Texel Rate 42000 Mtexels/sec 77696 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 33600 Mpixels/sec 58272 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 512 (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 60 64 (x2)
Render Output Units 48 48 (x2)
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 384-bit (x2)
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3000 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 480

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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