NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

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
38582
1617
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
458
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 1617
PassMark - G2D Mark 458

Games performance

StarCraft 2 (2010)

Medium, 1360x76845.20
High, 1360x76844.50
Ultra, 1920x108036.80

Metro 2033 (2010)

Low, 800x600126.00
Medium, 1360x76863.80
High, 1600x90032.65
Ultra, 1920x108011.90

GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)

High, 1280x102453.90

Left 4 Dead (2008)

High, 1024x768142.00

Trackmania Nations Forever (2008)

Ultra, 1920x108052.80

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

High, 1280x102493.00

Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)

High, 1024x76852.40
Ultra, 1920x108045.10

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

High, 1024x76862.30
Ultra, 1920x108016.10

World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)

High, 1024x76884.00
Ultra, 1920x108035.00

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

High, 1024x768234.00

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480310.00
Ultra, 1024x768290.00

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768720.00

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Fermi
Code name GF100
Launch date 25 May 2010
Place in performance rating 297
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