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 GTX 460M
CORE STATE
GF106
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
GTX 460M
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
192
-91.7%
Shaders
2,304
192
-91.7%
TMUs
144
32
-77.8%
ROPs
32
24
-25.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
4
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
675 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1350 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
625 MHz
2.5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
1536 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
1,536
-81.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
60.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
384 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
5.400 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
21.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
518.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
43.20 GFLOPS (1:12)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
50 W
TDP (W)
150
50
-66.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Fermi
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GF106
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 400M
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
1,170 million
Die Size
232 mm²
238 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
4.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
CUDA
—
2.1
Shader Model
6.7
5.1
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 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 300M
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 500M