GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon RX 480
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1710MHz vs 1266MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 480 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
+72%
10070
Radeon RX 480
5834
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2080
+167%
11078
Radeon RX 480
4137
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 2080
+172%
5146
Radeon RX 480
1889
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 2080
+170%
46
Radeon RX 480
17
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 2080
+142%
85
Radeon RX 480
35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080
+154%
127
Radeon RX 480
50
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 2080
+200%
108
Radeon RX 480
36
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080
+69%
180
Radeon RX 480
106
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Jun 2016
GeForce 20
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
46
SM Count
-
2944
Shading Units
2304
184
TMUs
144
64
ROPs
32
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
Ellesmere
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 XT
(215-0876184)
Turing
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
12 nm
Process Size
14 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.4