NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700 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 480

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
7.8x more texture fill rate: 42 billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
40x more pipelines: 480 vs 12
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 512 MB
Around 85% higher memory clock speed: 1848 MHz (3696 data rate) vs 1000 MHz
27.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4103 vs 148
Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 447 vs 232

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 March 2010 vs 1 August 2006
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	42 billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1848 MHz (3696 data rate) vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4103 vs 148
PassMark - G2D Mark	447 vs 232

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4103

148

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

447

232

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
PassMark - G3D Mark	4103	148
PassMark - G2D Mark	447	232
Geekbench - OpenCL	13141
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 GTX 480	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF100	G73
Launch date	26 March 2010	1 August 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$499
Place in performance rating	738	741
Price now	$71.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	61.35
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	450 MHz
CUDA cores	480
Floating-point performance	1,345.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Pipelines	480	12
Texture fill rate	42 billion / sec	5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	177 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	16x PCI-E 2.0
Height	4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options	2-way, 3-way
Supplementary power connectors	6-pin & 8-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.2	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	177.4 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	1848 MHz (3696 data rate)	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	128
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
SLI