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

Quadro NVS 280 PCIe

CORE STATE NV37

VRAM 64 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 13 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Rankine

nm

PROCESS 150 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2004

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

966

N/A

geekbench_metal

51,057

N/A

geekbench_opencl

38,245

N/A

geekbench_vulkan

45,968

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 480

Quadro NVS 280 PCIe

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

—

Shaders

2,304

—

TMUs

144

4 -97.2%

ROPs

32

4 -87.5%

Compute Units

36

—

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

275 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

250 MHz 500 Mbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

64 MB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

64 -99.2%

Memory Type

GDDR5

DDR

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

8.000 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

2 MB

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

1.100 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

1.100 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

—

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

—

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

150 W

13 W

TDP (W)

150

13 -91.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

200 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Rankine

GPU Name

Ellesmere

NV37

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

Quadro NVS

Process Size

14 nm

150 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

45 million

Die Size

232 mm²

91 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

494.5K / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

9.0a

OpenGL

4.6

1.5 (full) 2.0 (partial)

Vulkan

1.3

—

OpenCL

2.1

—

Shader Model

6.7

—

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

168 mm 6.6 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 1.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

—

Successor

Polaris

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