GPU Comparison
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
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
VS
GEFORCE
L20
CORE STATE
AD102
VRAM
48 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2520 MHz
TDP
275 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ada Lovelace
PROCESS
5 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2023
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
L20
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
11,776
+411.1%
Shaders
2,304
11,776
+411.1%
TMUs
144
368
+155.6%
ROPs
32
128
+300.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
92
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1440 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
2520 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
48 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
49,152
+500.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
864.0 GB/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
322.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
927.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
59.35 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
927.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
59.35 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
92
Tensor Cores
—
368
Power
TDP
150 W
275 W
TDP (W)
150
275
+83.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 16-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ada Lovelace
GPU Name
Ellesmere
AD102
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Server Ada
(Lxx)
Process Size
14 nm
5 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
76,300 million
Die Size
232 mm²
609 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
125.3M / 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
—
8.9
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Server Ampere
Successor
Polaris
Server Hopper