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
Quadro FX 4500
CORE STATE
G70
VRAM
512 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
109 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Curie
PROCESS
110 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2005
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
Quadro FX 4500
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
—
Shaders
2,304
—
TMUs
144
24
-83.3%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
36
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
430 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
525 MHz
1050 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
512 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
512
-93.8%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
33.60 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
6.880 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
10.32 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
—
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
109 W
TDP (W)
150
109
-27.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Curie
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G70
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Quadro FX Curie
(x500)
Process Size
14 nm
110 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
302 million
Die Size
232 mm²
333 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
906.9K / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
—
Shader Model
6.7
3.0
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
230 mm
9.1 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x S-Video
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
2,499 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Quadro FX Rankine
Successor
Polaris
Quadro FX Tesla