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 GT 230 OEM
CORE STATE
G92B
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla
PROCESS
55 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2009
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
GT 230 OEM
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
96
-95.8%
Shaders
2,304
96
-95.8%
TMUs
144
48
-66.7%
ROPs
32
12
-62.5%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
12
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
500 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
500 MHz
1000 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
1536 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
1,536
-81.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR2
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
24.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
48 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
6.000 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
24.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
75 W
TDP (W)
150
75
-50.0%
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Tesla
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G92B
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 200
Process Size
14 nm
55 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
754 million
Die Size
232 mm²
260 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
2.9M / 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
—
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
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 400