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
RADEON
Radeon RX 5600 OEM
CORE STATE
Navi 10
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1560 MHz
TDP
125 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
RDNA 1.0
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2020
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
RX 5600 OEM
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
2,048
-11.1%
Shaders
2,304
2,048
-11.1%
TMUs
144
128
-11.1%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
36
32
-11.1%
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1130 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1560 MHz
Game Clock
—
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
12 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
6 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
6,144
-25.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
288.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
99.84 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
199.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
6.390 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
399.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
12.78 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
150 W
125 W
TDP (W)
150
125
-16.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
RDNA 1.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Navi 10
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Navi
(RX 5000)
Process Size
14 nm
7 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
10,300 million
Die Size
232 mm²
251 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
41.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
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
1x HDMI 2.0b3x 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
Vega
Successor
Polaris
Navi II