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 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

472

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

18,991

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

18,516

passmark_directx_10

N/A

28

passmark_directx_11

N/A

42

passmark_directx_12

N/A

24

passmark_directx_9

N/A

99

passmark_g2d

N/A

381

passmark_g3d

N/A

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,289

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

1,280 -44.4%

Shaders

2,304

1,280 -44.4%

TMUs

144

80 -44.4%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

36

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Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

924 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1038 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

6,144 -25.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

150 W

—

TDP (W)

150

—

Suggested PSU

450 W

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Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM204

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

GeForce 900M

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

5,200 million

Die Size

232 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

MXM Module

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

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Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

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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 800M

Successor

Polaris

GeForce 10 Mobile

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