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 G100 OEM
CORE STATE
G98S
VRAM
256 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
35 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla
PROCESS
65 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2009
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
G100 OEM
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
8
-99.7%
Shaders
2,304
8
-99.7%
TMUs
144
4
-97.2%
ROPs
32
4
-87.5%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
1
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
540 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
400 MHz
800 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
256 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
256
-96.9%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR2
Memory Bus
256 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
6.400 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
16 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
2.160 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
2.160 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
20.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
35 W
TDP (W)
150
35
-76.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Tesla
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G98S
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 100
Process Size
14 nm
65 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
210 million
Die Size
232 mm²
86 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
UMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
2.4M / 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
Single-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
168 mm
6.6 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x S-Video
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 9
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 200