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 460
CORE STATE
GF104
VRAM
768 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
160 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
GTX 460
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
336
-85.4%
Shaders
2,304
336
-85.4%
TMUs
144
56
-61.1%
ROPs
32
24
-25.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
7
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
675 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1350 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
900 MHz
3.6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
768 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
768
-90.6%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
86.40 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
384 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
9.450 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
907.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
75.60 GFLOPS (1:12)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
160 W
TDP (W)
150
160
+6.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Fermi
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GF104
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 400
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
1,950 million
Die Size
232 mm²
332 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
5.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
CUDA
—
2.1
Shader Model
6.7
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
210 mm
8.3 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
199 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 200
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 500