NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

18
Place in performance rating
463
27.64
Value for money (0-100)
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Pascal
Architecture
Fermi
Pascal GP104 SLI
Code name
GF100
Laptop
Type
Laptop
16 August 2016 (5 years ago)
Release date
25 May 2010 (11 years ago)
$352
Price now
$163
74.40
Value for money
2.00
Pascal GP104 SLI
GPU code name
N11E-GTX-A3
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

5120
Pipelines
352
1556 MHz
Core clock speed
425 MHz
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
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14400 Million
Transistor count
3,100 million
16 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
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Texture fill rate
18.7 billion/sec
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Floating-point performance
598.4 gflops
5120
Pipelines / CUDA cores
352
1733 MHz
Boost clock speed
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14400 Million
Number of transistors
3,100 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
100 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M.

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Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
large
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SLI options
+
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Bus support
PCI-E 2.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2x 8 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
10000 MHz
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
76.8 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs
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G-SYNC support
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Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M is the additional functionality.

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VR Ready
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Multi Monitor
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3D Vision
+
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GPU Boost
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CUDA
+
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GeForce Experience
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Surround
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Multi-Projection
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Adaptive Vertical Sync
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX 12_1
DirectX
12 API
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OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
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OpenCL
1.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile

76.41% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (5120 vs 352)

Finer manufacturing process technology (16 nm vs 40 nm)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Cheaper ($163 vs $352)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M performance benchmarks comparison

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