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 Go 7800 GTX
CORE STATE
G70
VRAM
512 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
65 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Curie
PROCESS
110 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2005
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
Go 7800 GTX
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
—
Shaders
2,304
—
TMUs
144
24
-83.3%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
36
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
440 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
550 MHz
1100 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
35.20 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
7.040 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
10.56 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
65 W
TDP (W)
150
65
-56.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Curie
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G70
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce Go 7
(Go 7000)
Process Size
14 nm
110 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
302 million
Die Size
232 mm²
333 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
906.9K / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
—
Shader Model
6.7
3.0
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
—
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce Go 6
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 8M