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
Tesla D870
CORE STATE
G80
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
520 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla
PROCESS
90 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2007
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
Tesla D870
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
128
-94.4%
Shaders
2,304
128
-94.4%
TMUs
144
32
-77.8%
ROPs
32
24
-25.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
16
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
600 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1350 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
1536 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
1,536
-81.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
76.80 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
96 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
14.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
38.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
345.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
520 W
TDP (W)
150
520
+246.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
900 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
—
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Tesla
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G80
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Tesla
(x8xx)
Process Size
14 nm
90 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
681 million
Die Size
232 mm²
484 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
1.4M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.1 (1.0)
CUDA
—
1.0
Shader Model
6.7
4.0
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
—
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
7,499 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
—
Successor
Polaris
Tesla