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

Quadro FX 550

CORE STATE NV43

VRAM 128 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 30 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Curie

nm

PROCESS 110 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2006

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

N/A

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

N/A

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

Quadro FX 550

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

—

Shaders

2,304

—

TMUs

144

8 -94.4%

ROPs

32

4 -87.5%

Compute Units

36

—

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

360 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

400 MHz 800 Mbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

128 MB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

128 -98.4%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

12.80 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

2 MB

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

1.440 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

2.880 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

30 W

TDP (W)

150

30 -80.0%

Suggested PSU

450 W

200 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Curie

GPU Name

Ellesmere

NV43

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

Quadro FX Curie (x500)

Process Size

14 nm

110 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

146 million

Die Size

232 mm²

154 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

948.1K / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenGL

4.6

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

Vulkan

1.3

—

OpenCL

2.1

—

Shader Model

6.7

3.0

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

198 mm 7.8 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

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

Quadro FX Rankine

Successor

Polaris

Quadro FX Tesla

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