NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition

10.9x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz

Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 450 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
PassMark - G3D Mark		4107
PassMark - G2D Mark		445
Geekbench - OpenCL		13113
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		34.483
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		706.104
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.245
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		30.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		106.875
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5110
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3320
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5110
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3320
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Fermi
Code name	MCP89	GF100
Launch date	1 April 2010	26 March 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	752
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Price now		$71.99
Value for money (0-100)		61.35
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	3,100 million
CUDA cores		480
Floating-point performance		1,345.0 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Pipelines		480
Texture fill rate		42 billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options		2-way, 3-way
Supplementary power connectors		6-pin & 8-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	3.3	4.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1536 MB
Memory bandwidth		177.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		384 Bit
Memory clock speed		1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
SLI