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 980 Ti
CORE STATE
GM200
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1076 MHz
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
GTX 980 Ti
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
2,816
+22.2%
Shaders
2,304
2,816
+22.2%
TMUs
144
176
+22.2%
ROPs
32
96
+200.0%
Compute Units
36
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Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1076 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1753 MHz
7 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
384 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
336.6 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
103.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
189.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
250 W
TDP (W)
150
250
+66.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GM200
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 900
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
8,000 million
Die Size
232 mm²
601 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
13.3M / 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
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
649 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 700
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 10