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 590

CORE STATE GF110

VRAM 1536 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 365 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi 2.0

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2011

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

N/A

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

12,830

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

GTX 590

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

512 -77.8%

Shaders

2,304

512 -77.8%

TMUs

144

64 -55.6%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

16

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

608 MHz

Shader Clock

—

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

854 MHz 3.4 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

384 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

768 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

19.46 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

1,244.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

155.5 GFLOPS (1:8)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

150 W

365 W

TDP (W)

150

365 +143.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

750 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Fermi 2.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GF110

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

GeForce 500

Process Size

14 nm

40 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

3,000 million

Die Size

232 mm²

520 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

5.8M / 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

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

279 mm 11 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

699 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 400

Successor

Polaris

GeForce 600

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