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 K420
CORE STATE
GK107
VRAM
1024 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
41 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
Quadro K420
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
192
-91.7%
Shaders
2,304
192
-91.7%
TMUs
144
16
-88.9%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
36
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
876 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
891 MHz
1782 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
1024 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
1,024
-87.5%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
28.51 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
256 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
3.504 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
14.02 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
336.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
14.02 GFLOPS (1:24)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
41 W
TDP (W)
150
41
-72.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Kepler
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GK107
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Quadro Kepler
(Kx200)
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
1,270 million
Die Size
232 mm²
118 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
10.8M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.175
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
160 mm
6.3 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
69 mm
2.7 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Quadro Fermi
Successor
Polaris
Quadro Maxwell