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 870M
CORE STATE
GK104
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
967 MHz
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
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 870M
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
1,344
-41.7%
Shaders
2,304
1,344
-41.7%
TMUs
144
112
-22.2%
ROPs
32
24
-25.0%
Compute Units
36
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Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
941 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
967 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
3 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
3,072
-62.5%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
120.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
384 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
27.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
108.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
2.599 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
108.3 GFLOPS (1:24)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
100 W
TDP (W)
150
100
-33.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Kepler
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GK104
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 800M
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
3,540 million
Die Size
232 mm²
294 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
12.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.175
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
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
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 700M
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 900M