NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
VS
NVIDIA Quadro P520
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
VS
NVIDIA Quadro P520

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and NVIDIA Quadro P520. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

301
Place in performance rating
454
7.61
Value for money (0-100)
1.66
Fermi
Architecture
Pascal
GF100
Code name
no data
Desktop
Type
Mobile workstation
7 December 2010 (10 years ago)
Release date
27 May 2019 (2 years ago)
$499
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$8.99 (0x MSRP)
Price now
$1670
2.72
Value for money
1.94
GF100
GPU code name
GP108
Desktop
Market segment
Mobile workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and NVIDIA Quadro P520 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

480
Pipelines
384
700 MHz
Core clock speed
1303 MHz
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Boost Clock
1493 MHz
3,100 million
Transistor count
no data
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
250 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
42 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
35.83
1,345.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
105 °C
Maximum GPU temperature
no data
480
CUDA cores
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480
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
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Boost clock speed
1493 MHz
3,100 million
Number of transistors
1,800 million
250 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
18 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and NVIDIA Quadro P520.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
Length
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6-pin & 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Laptop size
large
+
SLI options
no data
16x PCI-E 2.0
Bus support
no data
4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Height
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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 480 and NVIDIA Quadro P520 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
1536 MB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
384 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
177.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
48.06 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and NVIDIA Quadro P520, the size and number of monitors.

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Display Connectors
No outputs
+
Multi monitor support
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+
HDCP
no data
2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
no data
Internal
Audio input for HDMI
no data
+
HDMI
no data

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and NVIDIA Quadro P520 is the additional functionality.

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Multi Monitor
+
+
3D Vision
no data
+
CUDA
no data
DirectX 11
DirectX 11
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and NVIDIA Quadro P520. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX 12_1
4.2
OpenGL
no data
no data
Vulkan
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and NVIDIA Quadro P520 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 480 or NVIDIA Quadro P520 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
NVIDIA Quadro P520
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
NVIDIA Quadro P520
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
NVIDIA Quadro P520
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
NVIDIA Quadro P520
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
NVIDIA Quadro P520
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 480

7.74% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($8.99 (0x MSRP) vs $1670)

More pipelines (480 vs 384)

More maximum RAM amount (1536 MB vs 2 GB)

More memory bandwidth (177.4 GB/s vs 48.06 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA Quadro P520

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 40 nm)

Multi Monitor

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 or NVIDIA Quadro P520?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 versus NVIDIA Quadro P520 performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
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