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
GeForce 310 OEM
CORE STATE
GT218S
VRAM
512 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
31 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla 2.0
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2009
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
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DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
310 OEM
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
16
-99.3%
Shaders
2,304
16
-99.3%
TMUs
144
8
-94.4%
ROPs
32
4
-87.5%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
2
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
589 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1402 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
333 MHz
666 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
512 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
512
-93.8%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR2
Memory Bus
256 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
5.328 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
32 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
2.356 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
4.712 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
44.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
31 W
TDP (W)
150
31
-79.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Tesla 2.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GT218S
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 300
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
260 million
Die Size
232 mm²
57 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
4.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_1)
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
CUDA
—
1.2
Shader Model
6.7
4.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
168 mm
6.6 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x DisplayPort1x VGA
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 200
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 400