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 430
CORE STATE
GF108
VRAM
512 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
49 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
GT 430
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
96
-95.8%
Shaders
2,304
96
-95.8%
TMUs
144
16
-88.9%
ROPs
32
4
-87.5%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
2
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
700 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1400 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
DDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
12.80 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
128 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
2.800 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
268.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
22.40 GFLOPS (1:12)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
49 W
TDP (W)
150
49
-67.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Fermi
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GF108
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 400
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
585 million
Die Size
232 mm²
116 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
5.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
CUDA
—
2.1
Shader Model
6.7
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
145 mm
5.7 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x VGA
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
79 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 200
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 500