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
Quadro FX 4500 X2
CORE STATE
G71
VRAM
512 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
145 W
BUS WIDTH
256 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
Quadro FX 4500 X2
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
—
Shaders
2,304
—
TMUs
144
24
-83.3%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
36
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
605 MHz
1210 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
512 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
512
-93.8%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
38.72 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
8.000 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
12.00 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
145 W
TDP (W)
150
145
-3.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Curie
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G71
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Quadro FX Curie
(x500)
Process Size
14 nm
90 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
278 million
Die Size
232 mm²
196 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
1.4M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL
4.6
2.1.2 (full)
3.x (partial)
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
—
Shader Model
6.7
3.0
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
305 mm
12 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x DVI
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
2,799 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Quadro FX Rankine
Successor
Polaris
Quadro FX Tesla