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
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
CORE STATE
DG1
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1650 MHz
TDP
25 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Generation 12.1
PROCESS
10 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2020
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
768
-66.7%
Shaders
2,304
768
-66.7%
TMUs
144
48
-66.7%
ROPs
32
24
-25.0%
Compute Units
36
—
Execution Units
—
96
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
300 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
2133 MHz
4.3 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
4,096
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR4X
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
68.26 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
L3 Cache
—
16 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
39.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
2.534 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
633.6 GFLOPS (1:4)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
5.069 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
150 W
25 W
TDP (W)
150
25
-83.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Generation 12.1
GPU Name
Ellesmere
DG1
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Xe Graphics
Process Size
14 nm
10 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
—
Die Size
232 mm²
95 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Intel
Density
24.6M / mm²
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API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
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
IGP
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
—
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Graphics
Successor
Polaris
Alchemist