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
GPU
Arc A580
CORE STATE
DG2-512
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2000 MHz
TDP
175 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Xe-HPG
PROCESS
6 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2023
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
A580
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
—
Execution Units
—
384
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
8,192
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
8 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
192.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
12.29 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
1.536 TFLOPS (1:8)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
24.58 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
24
XMX Cores
—
384
Power
TDP
150 W
175 W
TDP (W)
150
175
+16.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Xe-HPG
GPU Name
Ellesmere
DG2-512
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Alchemist
(Arc 5)
Process Size
14 nm
6 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
21,700 million
Die Size
232 mm²
406 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
53.4M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.6
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 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Xe Graphics
Successor
Polaris
Battlemage