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 GTS 160M
CORE STATE
G94
VRAM
1024 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
60 W
BUS WIDTH
256 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
GTS 160M
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
64
-97.2%
Shaders
2,304
64
-97.2%
TMUs
144
32
-77.8%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
8
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
600 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
1024 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
1,024
-87.5%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
51.20 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
64 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
9.600 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
192.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
60 W
TDP (W)
150
60
-60.0%
Suggested PSU
450 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Tesla
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G94
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 100M
Process Size
14 nm
65 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
505 million
Die Size
232 mm²
240 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
2.1M / 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
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 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 9M
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 200M