GPU Comparison

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AMD

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

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

CORE STATE GT200B

VRAM 896 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 171 W

BUS WIDTH 448 bit

ARCHITECTURE Tesla 2.0

nm

PROCESS 55 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2008

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

N/A

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

N/A

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

216 -90.6%

Shaders

2,304

216 -90.6%

TMUs

144

72 -50.0%

ROPs

32

28 -12.5%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

27

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

576 MHz

Shader Clock

—

1242 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

999 MHz 1998 Mbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

896 MB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

896 -89.1%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Memory Bus

256 bit

448 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

111.9 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

2 MB

224 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

16.13 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

536.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

67.07 GFLOPS (1:8)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

150 W

171 W

TDP (W)

150

171 +14.0%

Suggested PSU

450 W

450 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Tesla 2.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GT200B

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

GeForce 200

Process Size

14 nm

55 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

1,400 million

Die Size

232 mm²

470 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

3.0M / 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

—

1.3

Shader Model

6.7

4.0

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

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Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x DVI1x S-Video

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

299 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 9

Successor

Polaris

GeForce 400

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