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 3070

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1725 MHz

TDP 220 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

3,162

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

123,479

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

120,664

passmark_directx_10

N/A

150

passmark_directx_11

N/A

182

passmark_directx_12

N/A

85

passmark_directx_9

N/A

247

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,001

passmark_g3d

N/A

22,214

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

11,195

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

RTX 3070

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

5,888 +155.6%

Shaders

2,304

5,888 +155.6%

TMUs

144

184 +27.8%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

46

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1500 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1725 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

256 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

165.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

317.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

20.31 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

46

Tensor Cores

—

184

Power

TDP

150 W

220 W

TDP (W)

150

220 +46.7%

Suggested PSU

450 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA104

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

GeForce 30

Process Size

14 nm

8 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

17,400 million

Die Size

232 mm²

392 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

Samsung

Density

24.6M / mm²

44.4M / 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 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

499 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 20

Successor

Polaris

GeForce 40

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