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 850A
CORE STATE
GM107
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
902 MHz
TDP
45 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 850A
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
640
-72.2%
Shaders
2,304
640
-72.2%
TMUs
144
40
-72.2%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
36
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Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
902 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
902 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
2,048
-75.0%
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
14.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
36.08 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
1,154.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
36.08 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
45 W
TDP (W)
150
45
-70.0%
Suggested PSU
450 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GM107
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 800A
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
IGP
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
—
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 700A
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 900A