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 RTX 5080

CORE STATE GB203

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2617 MHz

TDP 360 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

8,637

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

264,461

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

257,942

passmark_directx_10

N/A

208

passmark_directx_11

N/A

324

passmark_directx_12

N/A

151

passmark_directx_9

N/A

389

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,415

passmark_g3d

N/A

36,565

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

21,789

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

RTX 5080

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

10,752 +366.7%

Shaders

2,304

10,752 +366.7%

TMUs

144

336 +133.3%

ROPs

32

112 +250.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

84

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

2295 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

2617 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1875 MHz 30 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

16,384 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

960.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

64 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

293.1 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

879.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

56.28 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

879.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

56.28 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

84

Tensor Cores

—

336

Power

TDP

150 W

360 W

TDP (W)

150

360 +140.0%

Suggested PSU

450 W

750 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GB203

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

GeForce 50

Process Size

14 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

45,600 million

Die Size

232 mm²

378 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

120.6M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

12.0

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

304 mm 12 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

137 mm 5.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

999 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 40

Successor

Polaris

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