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 9070 GRE
CORE STATE
Navi 48
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2790 MHz
TDP
220 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
RDNA 4.0
PROCESS
4 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2025
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
RX 9070 GRE
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
48
+33.3%
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1420 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
2790 MHz
Game Clock
—
2220 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
12 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
12,288
+50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
432.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
8 MB
L3 Cache
—
48 MB
L0 Cache
—
32 KB per WGP
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
267.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
535.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
34.28 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
1,071.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
68.57 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
48
Matrix Cores
—
96
Power
TDP
150 W
220 W
TDP (W)
150
220
+46.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
RDNA 4.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Navi 48
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Navi IV
(RX 9000)
Process Size
14 nm
4 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
53,900 million
Die Size
232 mm²
357 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
151.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
2.2
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 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Navi III
Successor
Polaris
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