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
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
CORE STATE
AD107
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2130 MHz
TDP
70 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ada Lovelace
PROCESS
5 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2024
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
2,816
+22.2%
Shaders
2,304
2,816
+22.2%
TMUs
144
88
-38.9%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
22
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1620 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
2130 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
16,384
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
12 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
102.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
187.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
12.00 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
187.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
12.00 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
22
Tensor Cores
—
88
Power
TDP
150 W
70 W
TDP (W)
150
70
-53.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ada Lovelace
GPU Name
Ellesmere
AD107
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Workstation Ada
(x000A)
Process Size
14 nm
5 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
18,900 million
Die Size
232 mm²
159 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
118.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
8.9
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
168 mm
6.6 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
69 mm
2.7 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
649 USD
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Workstation Ampere
Successor
Polaris
Blackwell PRO W