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

Vanta LT

CORE STATE NV5

VRAM 8 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 64 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fahrenheit

nm

PROCESS 250 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2000

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

Vanta LT

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

—

Shaders

2,304

—

TMUs

144

2 -98.6%

ROPs

32

2 -93.8%

Compute Units

36

—

Clocks

Base Clock

1120 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

105 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

100 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

8 MB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

8 -99.9%

Memory Type

GDDR5

SDR

Memory Bus

256 bit

64 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

800.0 MB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

2 MB

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

210.0 MPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

210.0 MTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS

—

FP64 (TFLOPS)

364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

—

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)

—

Power

TDP

150 W

—

TDP (W)

150

—

Suggested PSU

450 W

200 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Fahrenheit

GPU Name

Ellesmere

NV5

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

TNT2

Process Size

14 nm

250 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

15 million

Die Size

232 mm²

63 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

238.1K / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

6.0

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

—

OpenCL

2.1

—

Shader Model

6.7

—

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

—

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

—

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x VGA

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

AGP 2x

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

Riva

Successor

Polaris

GeForce 256

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