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
GeForce 9600 GT
CORE STATE
G94
VRAM
512 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
95 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla
PROCESS
65 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2008
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
9600 GT
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
64
-97.2%
Shaders
2,304
64
-97.2%
TMUs
144
32
-77.8%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
8
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
650 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1625 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
512 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
512
-93.8%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
57.60 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
64 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
10.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
208.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
95 W
TDP (W)
150
95
-36.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Tesla
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G94
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 9
(9600)
Process Size
14 nm
65 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
505 million
Die Size
232 mm²
240 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
2.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
CUDA
—
1.1
Shader Model
6.7
4.0
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-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
2x DVI1x S-Video
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
179 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 8
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 200