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
GPU
Arc B570
CORE STATE
BMG-G21
VRAM
10 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2500 MHz
TDP
150 W
BUS WIDTH
160 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Xe2-HPG
PROCESS
5 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2025
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
B570
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
2,304
0.0%
Shaders
2,304
2,304
0.0%
TMUs
144
144
0.0%
ROPs
32
80
+150.0%
Compute Units
36
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Execution Units
—
18
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
2500 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
2375 MHz
19 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
10 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
10,240
+25.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
160 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
380.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB (per EU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
18 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
200.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
11.52 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
1,440.0 GFLOPS (1:8)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
23.04 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
18
XMX Cores
—
144
Power
TDP
150 W
150 W
TDP (W)
150
150
0.0%
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Xe2-HPG
GPU Name
Ellesmere
BMG-G21
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Battlemage
(Arc 5)
Process Size
14 nm
5 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
19,600 million
Die Size
232 mm²
272 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
72.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.6
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
272 mm
10.7 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
115 mm
4.5 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
219 USD
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Alchemist
Successor
Polaris
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