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 480M
CORE STATE
GF100
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
256 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 480M
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
352
-84.7%
Shaders
2,304
352
-84.7%
TMUs
144
44
-69.4%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
11
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
425 MHz
Shader Clock
—
850 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
600 MHz
2.4 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
2,048
-75.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
76.80 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
9.350 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
18.70 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
598.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
74.80 GFLOPS (1:8)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
100 W
TDP (W)
150
100
-33.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Fermi
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GF100
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 400M
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
3,100 million
Die Size
232 mm²
529 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
5.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
CUDA
—
2.0
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
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 300M
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 500M