NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M 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 GTX 1070 (Laptop)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 77% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 850 MHz
11.3x more texture fill rate: 210.6 GTexel / s vs 18.7 billion / sec
5.8x more pipelines: 2048 vs 352
11.3x better floating-point performance: 6,738 gflops vs 598.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
6.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10465 vs 1617
Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 603 vs 458

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 August 2016 vs 25 May 2010
Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	210.6 GTexel / s vs 18.7 billion / sec
Pipelines	2048 vs 352
Floating-point performance	6,738 gflops vs 598.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	10465 vs 1617
PassMark - G2D Mark	603 vs 458

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 150 Watt
150x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 8 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 8 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

10465

1617

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

603

458

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
PassMark - G3D Mark	10465	1617
PassMark - G2D Mark	603	458
Geekbench - OpenCL	47422
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	150.951
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1718.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	12.283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.289
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	710.366
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	13765
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	13765
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5536

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Fermi
Code name	GP104B	GF100
Launch date	15 August 2016	25 May 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$389.99
Place in performance rating	296	299
Price now	$359.99
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	43.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	850 MHz
CUDA cores	1920
Floating-point performance	6,738 gflops	598.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	40 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	94 °C
Pipelines	2048	352
Texture fill rate	210.6 GTexel / s	18.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	7,200 million	3,100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI	No outputs
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	large	large
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12 API
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB / s	76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	8 GB/s	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready