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 640M Mac Edition
CORE STATE
GK107
VRAM
512 MB
CLOCK SPEED
745 MHz
TDP
32 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
GT 640M Mac Edition
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
384
-83.3%
Shaders
2,304
384
-83.3%
TMUs
144
32
-77.8%
ROPs
32
8
-75.0%
Compute Units
36
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
745 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
745 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
512 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
512
-93.8%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
40.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
128 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
5.960 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
23.84 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
572.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
23.84 GFLOPS (1:24)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
32 W
TDP (W)
150
32
-78.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Kepler
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GK107
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 600M
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
1,270 million
Die Size
232 mm²
118 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
10.8M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.175
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
—
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 500M
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 700M