NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M videocard review

GeForce GTX 480M videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 25 May 2010. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Fermi microarchitecture codenamed GF100.

Core clock speed - 850 MHz. Texture fill rate - 18.7 billion / sec. Pipelines - 352. Floating-point performance - 598.4 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 3,100 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 100 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 2 GB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1200 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 76.8 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38588

1617

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1295

458

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	1617
PassMark - G2D Mark	458

Games performance

1. StarCraft 2 (2010)
2. Metro 2033 (2010)
3. GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)
4. Left 4 Dead (2008)
5. Trackmania Nations Forever (2008)
6. Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

7. Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)
8. Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)
9. World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)
10. Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)
11. Doom 3 (2004)
12. Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

StarCraft 2 (2010)

Medium, 1360x768	45.20
High, 1360x768	44.50
Ultra, 1920x1080	36.80

Metro 2033 (2010)

Low, 800x600	126.00
Medium, 1360x768	63.80
High, 1600x900	32.65
Ultra, 1920x1080	11.90

GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)

High, 1280x1024

53.90

Left 4 Dead (2008)

High, 1024x768

142.00

Trackmania Nations Forever (2008)

Ultra, 1920x1080

52.80

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

High, 1280x1024

93.00

Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)

High, 1024x768	52.40
Ultra, 1920x1080	45.10

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

High, 1024x768	62.30
Ultra, 1920x1080	16.10

World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)

High, 1024x768	84.00
Ultra, 1920x1080	35.00

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

High, 1024x768

234.00

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480	310.00
Ultra, 1024x768	290.00

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768

720.00

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Fermi
Code name	GF100
Launch date	25 May 2010
Place in performance rating	296
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	598.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm
Pipelines	352
Texture fill rate	18.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 API
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI