MSI GTX 480 Lightning vs MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

Comparison of MSI GTX 480 Lightning with 1,536 GB GDDR5 and 480 cores vs MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z with 32 GB GDDR7 and 21,760 cores.

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Performance Rating

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z outperforms MSI GTX 480 Lightning by 919.22% in the overall GPU ARK performance rating

A100 A100
H200 H200
MI325X MI325X

MSI GTX 480 Lightning

4.6

MSI GTX 480 Lightning

4.6
RX 7900 XTX RX 7900 XTX
MI250 MI250
Instinct MI300X Instinct MI300X

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

Contents:

Memory ML Performance Compute Power Architecture & Compatibility ML Software Support Clocks & Performance Power Consumption Rendering Additional

Memory

Memory Size

1,536 MB
🔥 32 ГБ

Memory Type

GDDR5 GDDR7

Memory Bandwidth

192.0 GB/s
🔥 1.79 TB/s

Memory Bus Width

384 бит 512 бит

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

No
🔥 118.8 TFLOPS

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

1.44 TFLOPS
🔥 +8,150% 118.8 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

0.18 TFLOPS
🔥 +931% 1.856 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

480
🔥 +4,433% 21,760

RT Cores

No
🔥 170

Architecture & Compatibility

GPU Architecture

Fermi Blackwell 2.0

SM (Streaming Multiprocessor)

15
🔥 +1,033% 170

PCIe Version

PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16

ML Software Support

CUDA Version

2.0
🔥 12.0

Clocks & Performance

Base Clock

No
🔥 2,017

Boost Clock

No
🔥 2,730

Memory Clock

1,000
🔥 +75% 1,750

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

🔥 -57% 600 W
1400 W

Power Connector

1x 6-pin + 2x 8-pin
🔥 +100% 2x 16-pin

TDP/TGP

🔥 -75% 250 W
1000 W

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

60
🔥 +1,033% 680

ROP

No
🔥 170

L2 Cache

768 KB
🔥 96 MB

Additional

Slots

Dual-slot Triple-slot

Release Date

Sept. 20, 2010 Jan. 6, 2026

Display Outputs

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x USB Type-C

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