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
Playstation 3 GPU 90nm
CORE STATE
RSX-90nm
VRAM
256 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
80 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Curie
PROCESS
90 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2006
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
Playstation 3 GPU 90nm
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
—
Shaders
2,304
—
TMUs
144
24
-83.3%
ROPs
32
8
-75.0%
Compute Units
36
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
550 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
650 MHz
1300 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
256 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
256
-96.9%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
20.80 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
4.400 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
13.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
—
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
80 W
TDP (W)
150
80
-46.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
—
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Curie
GPU Name
Ellesmere
RSX-90nm
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Console GPU
(Sony)
Process Size
14 nm
90 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
300 million
Die Size
232 mm²
258 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Sony
Density
24.6M / mm²
1.2M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
—
OpenGL
4.6
ES 1.1
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
—
Shader Model
6.7
—
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
—
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
325 mm
12.8 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
98 mm
3.9 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 1.3
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
—
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
599 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
—
Successor
Polaris
—