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

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

CMP 40HX

CORE STATE TU106

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1650 MHz

TDP 185 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

N/A

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

93,395

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

77,879

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

CMP 40HX

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

2,304 0.0%

Shaders

2,304

2,304 0.0%

TMUs

144

144 0.0%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

36

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1650 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)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

105.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

237.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

7.603 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

237.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

15.21 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

36

Tensor Cores

—

288

Power

TDP

150 W

185 W

TDP (W)

150

185 +23.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

450 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Turing

GPU Name

Ellesmere

TU106

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

Mining GPUs

Process Size

14 nm

12 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

10,800 million

Die Size

232 mm²

445 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

24.3M / 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

CUDA

—

7.5

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

229 mm 9 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

No outputs

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x4

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

699 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

—

Successor

Polaris

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