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 5090 D

CORE STATE GB202

VRAM 32 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2407 MHz

TDP 575 W

BUS WIDTH 512 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

14,326

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

375,966

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

376,915

passmark_directx_10

N/A

231

passmark_directx_11

N/A

371

passmark_directx_12

N/A

219

passmark_directx_9

N/A

434

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,487

passmark_g3d

N/A

44,065

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

28,396

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

RTX 5090 D

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

21,760 +844.4%

Shaders

2,304

21,760 +844.4%

TMUs

144

680 +372.2%

ROPs

32

176 +450.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

170

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

2017 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

2407 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

32 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

32,768 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

256 bit

512 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

1.79 TB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

96 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

423.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

1,636.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

104.8 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

1.637 TFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

104.8 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

170

Tensor Cores

—

680

Power

TDP

150 W

575 W

TDP (W)

150

575 +283.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

950 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GB202

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

GeForce 50

Process Size

14 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

92,200 million

Die Size

232 mm²

750 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

122.9M / 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

304 mm 12 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

137 mm 5.4 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 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

2,299 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 40

Successor

Polaris

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