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 Mobile

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1560 MHz

TDP 115 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

2,380

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

92,939

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

86,768

passmark_directx_10

N/A

113

passmark_directx_11

N/A

138

passmark_directx_12

N/A

64

passmark_directx_9

N/A

160

passmark_g2d

N/A

641

passmark_g3d

N/A

15,309

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

6,827

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

RTX 3070 Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

5,120 +122.2%

Shaders

2,304

5,120 +122.2%

TMUs

144

160 +11.1%

ROPs

32

80 +150.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

40

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1110 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1560 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

124.8 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

249.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

15.97 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

249.6 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

15.97 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

40

Tensor Cores

—

160

Power

TDP

150 W

115 W

TDP (W)

150

115 -23.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

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Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA104

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

GeForce 30 Mobile

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

—

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

—

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

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Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 20 Mobile

Successor

Polaris

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