Intel Aubrey Isle vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI

Comparative analysis of Intel Aubrey Isle and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

Intel Aubrey Isle

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Aubrey Isle

2.8x more core clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 425 MHz
4x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Core clock speed	1200 MHz vs 425 MHz
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI

22x more pipelines: 704 vs 32
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 45 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 300 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Pipelines	704 vs 32
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 45 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 300 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Aubrey Isle	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI
Essentials
Architecture	Knights	Fermi
Code name	Knights Ferry	N11E-GTX-A3
Launch date	31 May 2010	25 May 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	76.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	45 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	32	704
Texture fill rate	1.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	2,300 million	6000 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	11.1	11
OpenGL	4.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	307.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	512 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0