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Release date: Q1 2010.

Average Bench: 19.6% (219th of 714)

Based on 3,874 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 06C0 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Poor: 19%Average: 19.6% Great: 22%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GTX 480 averaged 80.4% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 22.5fps
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 38.3fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 480 is just 3.11%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GTX 480 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 40.9fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 26fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 3,874 samples)
Rank 21919.6%
Min Avg Max
21.2 Lighting 22.5 25.8
38.4 Reflection 40.9 46.8
24.3 Parallax 26 30.4
18.3% 29.8 fps
Min Avg Max
36.3 MRender 38.3 40.7
19.3 Gravity 20 22.7
23.5 Splatting 24.1 28.4
22% 27.5 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
EVGA(3842 1489) 1.5GB
CLim: 752 MHz, MLim: 950 MHz, Ram: 1.5GB, Driver: 391.35
20.3% Poor
Lighting 23.2
Reflection 41.4
Parallax 27.5
19% 30.7 fps
MRender 39.2
Gravity 20.8
Splatting 25.9
23% 28.6 fps
EVGA(3842 1482) 1.5GB
CLim: 725 MHz, MLim: 950 MHz, Ram: 1.5GB, Driver: 391.35
19.6% Very poor
Lighting 22.5
Reflection 40.5
Parallax 26.3
18% 29.8 fps
MRender 38.2
Gravity 20
Splatting 24.7
22% 27.6 fps
EVGA(3842 1480) 1.5GB
CLim: 700 MHz, MLim: 924 MHz, Ram: 1.5GB, Driver: 391.35
19.1% Very poor
Lighting 21.8
Reflection 39.5
Parallax 25.8
18% 29 fps
MRender 37.8
Gravity 19.5
Splatting 24.1
22% 27.1 fps
EVGA(3842 1482) 1.5GB
CLim: 725 MHz, MLim: 950 MHz, Ram: 1.5GB, Driver: 391.35
19.1% Very poor
Lighting 21.9
Reflection 39.4
Parallax 25.5
18% 28.9 fps
MRender 37
Gravity 19
Splatting 24.4
22% 26.8 fps
Nvidia(10DE 075F) 1.5GB
CLim: 700 MHz, MLim: 924 MHz, Ram: 1.5GB, Driver: 391.35
18.9% Very poor
Lighting 21.5
Reflection 37.4
Parallax 25.3
18% 28.1 fps
MRender 37.3
Gravity 19.4
Splatting 23.8
22% 26.8 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $500 @ launch in Mar '10)
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Nvidia(10DE 075F) 47% 19% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1480) 19% 19% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8349) 12% 19% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1482) 7% 20% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8359) 4% 19% ± 1%
MSI(1462 8010) 3% 19% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 34F6) 2% 19% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3502) 2% 22% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 1152) 1% 21% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3508) 1% 22% ± 1%
POV(1ACC 02FF) 1% 21% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2280) 0% 21% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2210) 0% 19% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1489) 0% 20% ± 0%
Device(107D 2B10) 0% 20% ± 0%
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Gaming
Gaming 17%
Surfboard
Desktop
Desktop 73%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 15%
Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E

CPU
Core i7-950Intel  $100Bench 66%, 36,389 samples496x
Core i7 930Intel  $249Bench 64%, 19,497 samples197x
Core i7 960Intel  $220Bench 68%, 16,233 samples145x
GPU
GTX 480Nvidia  $500Bench 20%, 3,874 samples1x
SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung  $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples47x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples40x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples40x
RAM
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples231x
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples221x
3x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 39,448 samples132x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 24% - Poor Total price: $730

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 Comments

GPUPro
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1,637

Official site www.geforce.com/...

Added 9 years ago.
USA-User
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9,832

Average (edit your comment) Add link

9 months ago.

CAN-User
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4,952

Poor

19 days ago.

if you dont want to waste money on a oven this gpu is for you

BRA-User
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4,635

Excellent

24 months ago.

Could be interesting if you can find it used for under 40usd. Any higher and you should just get a GT 1030 instead. Unlike the GT 1030 however you can't just stick it in any PC, you need a good PSU for this space heater.

MYS-User
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3,261

Poor

12 months ago.

Best alternative for your frying pan, oven, heater and a power burner.

FIN-User
Avatar level
2,536

Excellent

4 months ago.

i had it and it was a great GPU

BGD-User
Avatar level
1,794

Excellent

6 years ago.

according to price its much better than 1050ti, although 1050ti performance per watt is much better ... but for gaming experience there is a huge difference.

ISL-User
Avatar level
508

Excellent

4 years ago.

Had graphics issues/erros since I bought my PC many years ago and this card came with that pc.

ColdSpy
Avatar level
330

Excellent

4 years ago.

Probably the alternative of your usual gas kitchen stove or microwave oven. Game lightly as you cook your favorite dinner! (I'm not responsible for possible damage to your system if you take this literaly!)

Nolanimations
Avatar level
60

Good

5 years ago.

A great card if you want to warm up your room a bit!

Antimat
Avatar level
42

Average

4 years ago.

For too much old GPU is good Pretty good performace,memory 1280mb is decent on time when this GPU selling But temperature of this card is 80c and fan spin slow as if temperature is 40c :D ..... After manually fan set is decent card for LGA 775 or older processor but today i bought some news because more than 200w TDP is too much

Driftking60
Avatar level
22

Average

2 years ago.

2010 saw Nvidia's respone to ATi's wildly sucessful HD 5870. What was Nvidia's respone? A literal furnace. The GTX 480 had 1,536MB of VRAM as opposed to 1,024MB, giving it a slight advantage there. If you really don't care about thermals and like your PC components to be nice and toasty (trust me, they love it), then this is the perfect GPU for you. Pair this Thermi GPU with a PresHOT Pentium D and you've got a nice oven...

AOG_PC
Avatar level
8

Average

3 years ago.

This card used to be good 10 years ago. It outperforms its "successor", the 550-Ti by double the performance, according to the benchmarks. It also costs more, so it is the same value for money. (only if you are into old graphics cards.

stalkerente
Avatar level
6

Poor

6 years ago.

I got this GPU and knew what Power it had. But with that crappy cooler and the powerdraw you can literaly cook on it. When you try to overclock it and set the fan to 100% you got an excellent heater. The card can`t even stay below 95 degrees. Also it sucks so much power that my 550W Powersupply wasn`t enough. Seriously buy a newer card, keep the GTX 480 as a legend on the shelf and not in your PC.

ESARanger
Avatar level
4

Poor

6 years ago.

cheap but runs too hot

Verhexen
Avatar level
4

Excellent

5 years ago.

A powerful card and decently quiet, even in 2018/2019.

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