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 930A
CORE STATE
GM108
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
941 MHz
TDP
33 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
930A
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
384
-83.3%
Shaders
2,304
384
-83.3%
TMUs
144
24
-83.3%
ROPs
32
8
-75.0%
Compute Units
36
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Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
928 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
941 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1001 MHz
2 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
2,048
-75.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
16.02 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
7.528 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
22.58 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
722.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
22.58 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
33 W
TDP (W)
150
33
-78.0%
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GM108
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 900A
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
1,020 million
Die Size
232 mm²
77 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
13.2M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
5.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.7 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
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Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 800A
Successor
Polaris
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