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 GTX 1080 Ti

CORE STATE GP102

VRAM 11 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1582 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 352 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 16 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

2,231

geekbench_metal

51,057

30,624

geekbench_opencl

38,245

67,717

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

83,108

passmark_directx_10

N/A

118

passmark_directx_11

N/A

151

passmark_directx_12

N/A

66

passmark_directx_9

N/A

231

passmark_g2d

N/A

939

passmark_g3d

N/A

18,600

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,632

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

GTX 1080 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

3,584 +55.6%

Shaders

2,304

3,584 +55.6%

TMUs

144

224 +55.6%

ROPs

32

88 +175.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

28

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1481 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1582 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1376 MHz 11 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

11 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

11,264 +37.5%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5X

Memory Bus

256 bit

352 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

484.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2.75 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

139.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

11.34 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

354.4 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

177.2 GFLOPS (1:64)

Power

TDP

150 W

250 W

TDP (W)

150

250 +66.7%

Suggested PSU

450 W

600 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Pascal

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GP102

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

GeForce 10

Process Size

14 nm

16 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

11,800 million

Die Size

232 mm²

471 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

25.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

6.1

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

699 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 900

Successor

Polaris

GeForce 20

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