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 M40 24 GB
CORE STATE
GM200
VRAM
24 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1112 MHz
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 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 M40 24 GB
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
3,072
+33.3%
Shaders
2,304
3,072
+33.3%
TMUs
144
192
+33.3%
ROPs
32
96
+200.0%
Compute Units
36
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Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
948 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1112 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1502 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
24 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
24,576
+200.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
288.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
106.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
213.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
6.832 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
213.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
250 W
TDP (W)
150
250
+66.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
8-pin EPS
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GM200
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Tesla Maxwell
(Mxx)
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
8,000 million
Die Size
232 mm²
601 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
13.3M / 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
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
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