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 745 OEM
CORE STATE
GM107
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
55 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
GTX 745 OEM
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
384
-83.3%
Shaders
2,304
384
-83.3%
TMUs
144
24
-83.3%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
36
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
1033 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
4,096
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
28.80 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
16.53 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
24.79 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
24.79 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
55 W
TDP (W)
150
55
-63.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GM107
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 700
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
1,870 million
Die Size
232 mm²
148 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
12.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
5.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.7 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
145 mm
5.7 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x VGA
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 600
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 900