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 A5000

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1695 MHz

TDP 230 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

3,783

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

155,247

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

137,199

passmark_directx_10

N/A

153

passmark_directx_11

N/A

187

passmark_directx_12

N/A

87

passmark_directx_9

N/A

251

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,032

passmark_g3d

N/A

22,541

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

12,455

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

RTX A5000

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

8,192 +255.6%

Shaders

2,304

8,192 +255.6%

TMUs

144

256 +77.8%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

64

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1170 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

24,576 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

162.7 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

27.77 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

433.9 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

27.77 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

64

Tensor Cores

—

256

Power

TDP

150 W

230 W

TDP (W)

150

230 +53.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA102

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

14 nm

8 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

28,300 million

Die Size

232 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

Samsung

Density

24.6M / mm²

45.1M / 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

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

Quadro Turing

Successor

Polaris

Workstation Ada

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