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 8700M GT
CORE STATE
G84
VRAM
512 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
29 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla
PROCESS
80 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2007
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
8700M GT
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
32
-98.6%
Shaders
2,304
32
-98.6%
TMUs
144
16
-88.9%
ROPs
32
8
-75.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
4
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
625 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
512 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
512
-93.8%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
25.60 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
32 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
5.000 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
10.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
29 W
TDP (W)
150
29
-80.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Tesla
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G84
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 8M
(8000M)
Process Size
14 nm
80 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
289 million
Die Size
232 mm²
169 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
1.7M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
CUDA
—
1.1
Shader Model
6.7
4.0
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
—
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-HE
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce Go 7
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 9M