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
NVS 315
CORE STATE
GF119S
VRAM
1024 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
19 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi 2.0
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
NVS 315
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
48
-97.9%
Shaders
2,304
48
-97.9%
TMUs
144
8
-94.4%
ROPs
32
4
-87.5%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
1
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
523 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1046 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
875 MHz
1750 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
1024 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
1,024
-87.5%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
14.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
128 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
1.046 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
4.184 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
100.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
8.368 GFLOPS (1:12)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
19 W
TDP (W)
150
19
-87.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Fermi 2.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GF119S
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
NVS
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
292 million
Die Size
232 mm²
79 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
3.7M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
CUDA
—
2.1
Shader Model
6.7
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
145 mm
5.7 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DMS-59
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
159 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
—
Successor
Polaris
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