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 FX 5700 LE
CORE STATE
NV36
VRAM
128 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Rankine
PROCESS
130 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2004
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
FX 5700 LE
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
—
Shaders
2,304
—
TMUs
144
4
-97.2%
ROPs
32
4
-87.5%
Compute Units
36
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
200 MHz
400 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
128 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
128
-98.4%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR
Memory Bus
256 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
3.200 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
1.000 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
1.000 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
—
TDP (W)
150
—
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
—
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Rankine
GPU Name
Ellesmere
NV36
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce FX
(5700)
Process Size
14 nm
130 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
82 million
Die Size
232 mm²
133 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
616.5K / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0a
OpenGL
4.6
1.5 (full)
2.0 (partial)
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
—
Shader Model
6.7
—
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
—
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 8x
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 4 Ti
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 6 AGP