GPU Comparison
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
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX Vega 11
CORE STATE
Picasso
VRAM
System Shared
CLOCK SPEED
1400 MHz
TDP
15 W
BUS WIDTH
System Shared
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.0
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
RX Vega 11
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
704
-69.4%
Shaders
2,304
704
-69.4%
TMUs
144
44
-69.4%
ROPs
32
8
-75.0%
Compute Units
36
11
-69.4%
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
300 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
System Shared
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
System Shared
VRAM (MB)
8,192
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Memory Type
GDDR5
System Shared
Memory Bus
256 bit
System Shared
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
System Dependent
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
11.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
1.971 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
123.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
3.942 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
150 W
15 W
TDP (W)
150
15
-90.0%
Suggested PSU
450 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 5.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Picasso
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Vega IGP
(Picasso)
Process Size
14 nm
12 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
4,940 million
Die Size
232 mm²
210 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries
Density
24.6M / mm²
23.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
6.7
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
—
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Motherboard Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GCN 3.0 IGP
Successor
Polaris
Vega II IGP