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 FX 5900 ZT
CORE STATE
NV35
VRAM
128 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Rankine
PROCESS
130 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2003
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
FX 5900 ZT
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
—
325 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
350 MHz
700 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
22.40 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
1.300 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
2.600 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
—
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
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 4 Ti
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 6 AGP