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
Tesla K80
CORE STATE
GK210
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
824 MHz
TDP
300 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
Tesla K80
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
2,496
+8.3%
Shaders
2,304
2,496
+8.3%
TMUs
144
208
+44.4%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
36
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Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
562 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
824 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
12 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
12,288
+50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
240.6 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
42.85 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
171.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
4.113 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
1,371.1 GFLOPS (1:3)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
150 W
300 W
TDP (W)
150
300
+100.0%
Suggested PSU
450 W
700 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Kepler 2.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GK210
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Tesla Kepler
(Kxx)
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
7,100 million
Die Size
232 mm²
561 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
12.7M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.175
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
3.7
Shader Model
6.7
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Tesla Fermi
Successor
Polaris
Tesla Maxwell