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 7900 GX2
CORE STATE
G71
VRAM
512 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
110 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Curie
PROCESS
90 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2006
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
7900 GX2
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
—
Shaders
2,304
—
TMUs
144
24
-83.3%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
36
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
600 MHz
1200 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
512 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
512
-93.8%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
38.40 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
8.000 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
12.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
—
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
110 W
TDP (W)
150
110
-26.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Curie
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G71
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 7 PCIe
(7900)
Process Size
14 nm
90 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
278 million
Die Size
232 mm²
196 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
1.4M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL
4.6
2.1.2 (full)
3.x (partial)
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
—
Shader Model
6.7
3.0
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
312 mm
12.3 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x S-Video
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
599 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 6 PCIe
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 8