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

RTX A400

CORE STATE GA107

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1762 MHz

TDP 50 W

BUS WIDTH 64 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2024

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

N/A

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

22,844

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

21,769

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

RTX A400

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

768 -66.7%

Shaders

2,304

768 -66.7%

TMUs

144

24 -83.3%

ROPs

32

16 -50.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

6

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1417 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1762 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

64 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

96.00 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

28.19 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

42.29 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

2.706 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

42.29 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

2.706 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

6

Tensor Cores

—

24

Power

TDP

150 W

50 W

TDP (W)

150

50 -66.7%

Suggested PSU

450 W

250 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA107

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

14 nm

8 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

8,700 million

Die Size

232 mm²

200 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

Samsung

Density

24.6M / mm²

43.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

8.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

163 mm 6.4 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

69 mm 2.7 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

Quadro Turing

Successor

Polaris

Workstation Ada

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