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 MX230
CORE STATE
GP108
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1531 MHz
TDP
10 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
MX230
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
256
-88.9%
Shaders
2,304
256
-88.9%
TMUs
144
16
-88.9%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
2
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1519 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1531 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1502 MHz
6 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
64 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
24.50 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
783.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
24.50 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
12.25 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
150 W
10 W
TDP (W)
150
10
-93.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Pascal
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GP108
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce MX
(2xx)
Process Size
14 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
1,800 million
Die Size
232 mm²
74 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Density
24.6M / mm²
24.3M / 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
IGP
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 3.0 x4
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
—
Successor
Polaris
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