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
P106-090
CORE STATE
GP106
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1531 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
192 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
P106-090
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
768
-66.7%
Shaders
2,304
768
-66.7%
TMUs
144
48
-66.7%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
36
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SM Count
—
6
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1354 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1531 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
2002 MHz
8 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
3 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
3,072
-62.5%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
73.49 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
73.49 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
2.352 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
73.49 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
36.74 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
150 W
75 W
TDP (W)
150
75
-50.0%
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Pascal
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GP106
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Mining GPUs
Process Size
14 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
4,400 million
Die Size
232 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
22.0M / 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
250 mm
9.8 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 x1
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
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Successor
Polaris
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