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 740M
CORE STATE
GK208
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1033 MHz
TDP
33 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler 2.0
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 740M
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
980 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1033 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
2,048
-75.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
14.40 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
8.264 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
33.06 GFLOPS (1:24)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
33 W
TDP (W)
150
33
-78.0%
Suggested PSU
450 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Kepler 2.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GK208
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 700M
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
1,020 million
Die Size
232 mm²
87 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
11.7M / 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
—
3.5
Shader Model
6.7
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
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 x8
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 600M
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 800M