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

PG506-232

CORE STATE GA100

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1440 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 3072 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

N/A

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

37,998

225,124

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

PG506-232

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

3,584 +55.6%

Shaders

2,304

3,584 +55.6%

TMUs

144

224 +55.6%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

56

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1440 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1215 MHz 2.4 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

24,576 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

HBM2

Memory Bus

256 bit

3072 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

933.1 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

192 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

24 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

138.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

Tensor Cores

—

224

Power

TDP

150 W

165 W

TDP (W)

150

165 +10.0%

Suggested PSU

450 W

450 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

8-pin EPS

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA100

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

Server Ampere (Axx)

Process Size

14 nm

7 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

54,200 million

Die Size

232 mm²

826 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

65.6M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

—

OpenGL

4.6

—

Vulkan

1.3

—

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

8.0

Shader Model

6.7

—

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

No outputs

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

Tesla Turing

Successor

Polaris

Server Ada

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