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 Vega Frontier Edition
CORE STATE
Vega 10
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1600 MHz
TDP
300 W
BUS WIDTH
2048 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
Vega Frontier Edition
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
4,096
+77.8%
Shaders
2,304
4,096
+77.8%
TMUs
144
256
+77.8%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
36
64
+77.8%
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1382 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
945 MHz
1890 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
16,384
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
2048 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
483.8 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
102.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
409.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
13.11 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
819.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
26.21 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
150 W
300 W
TDP (W)
150
300
+100.0%
Suggested PSU
450 W
700 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 5.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Vega 10
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Radeon Pro Vega
(Vega Series)
Process Size
14 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
12,500 million
Die Size
232 mm²
495 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries
Density
24.6M / mm²
25.3M / 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
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
267 mm
10.5 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 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
999 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Radeon Pro Polaris
Successor
Polaris
Radeon Pro Navi