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 A4500
CORE STATE
GA102
VRAM
20 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1650 MHz
TDP
200 W
BUS WIDTH
320 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
RTX A4500
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
7,168
+211.1%
Shaders
2,304
7,168
+211.1%
TMUs
144
224
+55.6%
ROPs
32
96
+200.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
56
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
20 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
20,480
+150.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
320 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
640.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
6 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
158.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
369.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
23.65 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
369.6 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
23.65 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
56
Tensor Cores
—
224
Power
TDP
150 W
200 W
TDP (W)
150
200
+33.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ampere
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GA102
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Workstation Ampere
(Ax000)
Process Size
14 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
28,300 million
Die Size
232 mm²
628 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Density
24.6M / mm²
45.1M / 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
—
8.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
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
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
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
Quadro Turing
Successor
Polaris
Workstation Ada