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 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

369

geekbench_metal

51,057

13,595

geekbench_opencl

38,245

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

31,001

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

1,664 -27.8%

Shaders

2,304

1,664 -27.8%

TMUs

144

104 -27.8%

ROPs

32

56 +75.0%

Compute Units

36

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Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

150 W

148 W

TDP (W)

150

148 -1.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM204

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

5,200 million

Die Size

232 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

13.1M / 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

—

5.2

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

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 700

Successor

Polaris

GeForce 10

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