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
P104-100
CORE STATE
GP104
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1733 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
16 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
P104-100
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
1,920
-16.7%
Shaders
2,304
1,920
-16.7%
TMUs
144
120
-16.7%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
15
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1607 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1733 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1251 MHz
10 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
4,096
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
320.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
208.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
6.655 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
208.0 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
104.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
150 W
—
TDP (W)
150
—
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Pascal
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GP104
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Mining GPUs
Process Size
14 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
7,200 million
Die Size
232 mm²
314 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
22.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
6.1
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
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
—
Successor
Polaris
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