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

GeForce FX 5900

CORE STATE NV35

VRAM 128 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Rankine

nm

PROCESS 130 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2003

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

N/A

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

N/A

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

FX 5900

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

—

Shaders

2,304

—

TMUs

144

8 -94.4%

ROPs

32

4 -87.5%

Compute Units

36

—

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

400 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

425 MHz 850 Mbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

128 MB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

128 -98.4%

Memory Type

GDDR5

DDR

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

27.20 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

2 MB

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

1.600 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

3.200 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

—

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

—

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

—

Power

TDP

150 W

—

TDP (W)

150

—

Suggested PSU

450 W

200 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x Molex

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Rankine

GPU Name

Ellesmere

NV35

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

GeForce FX (5900)

Process Size

14 nm

130 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

135 million

Die Size

232 mm²

207 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

652.2K / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

9.0a

OpenGL

4.6

1.5 (full) 2.0 (partial)

Vulkan

1.3

—

OpenCL

2.1

—

Shader Model

6.7

—

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

218 mm 8.6 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

—

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

AGP 8x

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

399 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 4 Ti

Successor

Polaris

GeForce 6 AGP

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