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 5050

CORE STATE GB207

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2572 MHz

TDP 130 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

N/A

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

93,892

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

89,381

passmark_directx_10

N/A

103

passmark_directx_11

N/A

150

passmark_directx_12

N/A

66

passmark_directx_9

N/A

186

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,113

passmark_g3d

N/A

17,326

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,184

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

RTX 5050

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

2,560 +11.1%

Shaders

2,304

2,560 +11.1%

TMUs

144

80 -44.4%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

20

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

2317 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

2572 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

2500 MHz 20 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

320.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

24 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

82.30 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

205.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

13.17 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

205.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

13.17 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

20

Tensor Cores

—

80

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

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GB207

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

GeForce 50

Process Size

14 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

16,900 million

Die Size

232 mm²

149 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

113.4M / 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

—

12.0

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

—

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

—

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

249 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 40

Successor

Polaris

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