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 280

CORE STATE GT200

VRAM 1024 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 236 W

BUS WIDTH 512 bit

ARCHITECTURE Tesla 2.0

nm

PROCESS 65 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 280

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

240 -89.6%

Shaders

2,304

240 -89.6%

TMUs

144

80 -44.4%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

30

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

602 MHz

Shader Clock

—

1296 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1107 MHz 2.2 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

1024 MB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

1,024 -87.5%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Memory Bus

256 bit

512 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

141.7 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

2 MB

256 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

19.26 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

77.76 GFLOPS (1:8)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

150 W

236 W

TDP (W)

150

236 +57.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

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

649 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 9

Successor

Polaris

GeForce 400

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