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 GTX 260 OEM
CORE STATE
GT200
VRAM
1792 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
150 W
BUS WIDTH
448 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla 2.0
PROCESS
65 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2009
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
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geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
GTX 260 OEM
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
192
-91.7%
Shaders
2,304
192
-91.7%
TMUs
144
64
-55.6%
ROPs
32
28
-12.5%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
24
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
518 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1080 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1008 MHz
2 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
1792 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
1,792
-78.1%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
448 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
112.9 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
224 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
14.50 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
33.15 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
414.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
51.84 GFLOPS (1:8)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
150 W
TDP (W)
150
150
0.0%
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
GT200
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 200
Process Size
14 nm
65 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
1,400 million
Die Size
232 mm²
576 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
2.4M / 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
229 mm
9 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI
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 9
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 400