GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 480

CORE STATE Ellesmere

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1266 MHz

TDP 150 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

VS

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AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

CORE STATE Navi 10

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1980 MHz

TDP 225 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 1.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

N/A

geekbench_metal

51,057

88,292

geekbench_opencl

38,245

75,784

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

74,150

passmark_directx_10

N/A

98

passmark_directx_11

N/A

116

passmark_directx_12

N/A

66

passmark_directx_9

N/A

219

passmark_g2d

N/A

941

passmark_g3d

N/A

16,437

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

7,923

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

2,560 +11.1%

Shaders

2,304

2,560 +11.1%

TMUs

144

160 +11.1%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

36

40 +11.1%

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1980 MHz

Game Clock

—

1830 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

8,192 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

2 MB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

126.7 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

316.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

10.14 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

633.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

20.28 TFLOPS (2:1)

Power

TDP

150 W

225 W

TDP (W)

150

225 +50.0%

Suggested PSU

450 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

RDNA 1.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Navi 10

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

Navi (RX 5000)

Process Size

14 nm

7 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

10,300 million

Die Size

232 mm²

251 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

41.0M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

2.1

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

272 mm 10.7 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

449 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

Vega

Successor

Polaris

Navi II

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