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
GEFORCE
CMP 70HX
CORE STATE
GA104
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1395 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
—
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
CMP 70HX
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
3,840
+66.7%
Shaders
2,304
3,840
+66.7%
TMUs
144
120
-16.7%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
30
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1365 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1395 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1188 MHz
19 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
8,192
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
608.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
89.28 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
167.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
10.71 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
167.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
10.71 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
30
Tensor Cores
—
120
Power
TDP
150 W
—
TDP (W)
150
—
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ampere
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GA104
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Mining GPUs
Process Size
14 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
17,400 million
Die Size
232 mm²
392 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Density
24.6M / mm²
44.4M / 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
—
8.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
112 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
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
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Successor
Polaris
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