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 M4
CORE STATE
GM206
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1072 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
Tesla M4
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
1,024
-55.6%
Shaders
2,304
1,024
-55.6%
TMUs
144
64
-55.6%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
36
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Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
872 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1072 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
4,096
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
88.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
34.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
68.61 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
2.195 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
68.61 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
50 W
TDP (W)
150
50
-66.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GM206
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Tesla Maxwell
(Mxx)
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
2,940 million
Die Size
232 mm²
228 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
12.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
5.2
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
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Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Tesla Kepler
Successor
Polaris
Tesla Pascal