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

GB10

CORE STATE GB20B

VRAM 128 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2418 MHz

TDP 140 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

N/A

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

37,998

120,027

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

114,648

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

GB10

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

6,144 +166.7%

Shaders

2,304

6,144 +166.7%

TMUs

144

384 +166.7%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

2418 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1067 MHz 8.5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

128 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

131,072 +1500.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

LPDDR5X

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

273.2 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

50 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

116.1 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

928.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

29.71 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

464.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

29.71 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

384

Power

TDP

150 W

140 W

TDP (W)

150

140 -6.7%

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GB20B

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

Server Blackwell (Bxx)

Process Size

14 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

—

Die Size

232 mm²

—

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

—

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

—

OpenGL

4.6

—

Vulkan

1.3

—

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

12.1

Shader Model

6.7

—

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

IGP

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

150 mm 5.9 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

51 mm 2 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

3,999 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

Server Hopper

Successor

Polaris

Server Rubin

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