NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GTX 480M SLI provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 6.48% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 480M SLI sales 25 May 2010. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Fermi architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied.
Power consumption is at 100 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 480M SLI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 574 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 4.44 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | N11E-GTX-A3 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 25 May 2010 (14 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTX 480M SLI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 480M SLI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 704 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 425 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 6000 Million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 100 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 480M SLI and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | large |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 480M SLI: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1200 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Shared memory | - |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 480M SLI, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 480M SLI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 480M SLI is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| 900p | 61 | |
| Full HD | 67 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−11 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 16−18 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 8−9 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 18−20 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 12−14 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 14−16 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 18−20 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 40−45 | |
| Hitman 3 | 12−14 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 35−40 | |
| Metro Exodus | 18−20 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 18−20 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 21−24 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 50−55 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 16−18 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 8−9 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 18−20 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 12−14 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 14−16 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 18−20 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 40−45 | |
| Hitman 3 | 12−14 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 35−40 | |
| Metro Exodus | 18−20 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 18−20 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 21−24 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 20−22 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 50−55 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 16−18 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 8−9 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 12−14 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 14−16 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 40−45 | |
| Hitman 3 | 12−14 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 35−40 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 21−24 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 20−22 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 50−55 |
Full HD
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 18−20 |
1440p
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 12−14 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−11 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 6−7 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 2−3 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 6−7 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 7−8 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 21−24 | |
| Hitman 3 | 10−11 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 14−16 | |
| Metro Exodus | 6−7 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 3−4 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 6−7 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 40−45 |
1440p
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−12 |
4K
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 5−6 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 4−5 | |
| Hitman 3 | 3−4 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 18−20 | |
| Metro Exodus | 3−4 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 3−4 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 4−5 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 3−4 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 3−4 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 3−4 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 1−2 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 2−3 |
4K
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 7−8 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 480M SLI is Radeon RX 550X Mobile, which is slower by 6% and lower by 10 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 480M SLI:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 480M SLI according to our statistics.
