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 RTX 3050 OEM

CORE STATE GA106

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1755 MHz

TDP 130 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

N/A

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

60,740

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

57,103

passmark_directx_10

N/A

61

passmark_directx_11

N/A

86

passmark_directx_12

N/A

58

passmark_directx_9

N/A

137

passmark_g2d

N/A

973

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,857

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

5,779

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

RTX 3050 OEM

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

2,304 0.0%

Shaders

2,304

2,304 0.0%

TMUs

144

72 -50.0%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

18

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1515 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1755 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

8,192 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

56.16 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

8.087 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

126.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

8.087 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

18

Tensor Cores

—

72

Power

TDP

150 W

130 W

TDP (W)

150

130 -13.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA106

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

GeForce 30

Process Size

14 nm

8 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

12,000 million

Die Size

232 mm²

276 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

Samsung

Density

24.6M / mm²

43.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

8.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

242 mm 9.5 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 20

Successor

Polaris

GeForce 40

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