AMD Radeon RX 480

This is a GPU manufactured with GlobalFoundries 14nm process, based on AMD GCN 4.0 architecture and released on Jun 2016. It features 5.7 billion transistors, 36 Rendering cores and 8GB GDDR5 memory, with 2MB L2 cache, theoretical performance of 5.834TFLOPS, with total power consumption of 150W.

Graphics Card

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Release Date

Jun 2016

Generation

Arctic Islands

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

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Base Clock

1120 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

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Memory Size

8GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256bit

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

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Compute Units

36

Shading Units

2304

TMUs

144

ROPs

32

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

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Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

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GPU Name

Ellesmere

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT

(215-0876184)

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

Process Size

14 nm

Transistors

5.7 billion

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

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TDP

150W

Suggested PSU

450 W

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

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DirectX

12 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

2.1

Vulkan

1.2

Shader Model

6.4

Rankings

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FP32 (float)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Max Q 8 GB GDDR6

5.914 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon R9 390X 8 GB GDDR5

5.914 TFLOPS

NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile 6 GB 6 GB GDDR6

5.837 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon E9550 MXM 8 GB GDDR5

5.834 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GDDR5

5.834 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM 8 GB GDDR5

5.834 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon RX 5600M 6 GB GDDR6

5.829 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

AMD Radeon R9 390X 8 GB GDDR5

4245

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 6 GB GDDR5

4207

Intel Arc A380 6 GB GDDR6

4168

AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GDDR5

4164

NVIDIA P106 100 6 GB GDDR5

4073

AMD Radeon R9 390 8 GB GDDR5

3950

AMD Radeon R9 290X 4 GB GDDR5

3925

Blender

AMD Radeon RX 6550M 4 GB GDDR6

381

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 4 GB GDDR5

379

Intel Arc Pro A30M 4 GB GDDR6

378

AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GDDR5

374

AMD Radeon 890M System Shared System Shared

374

NVIDIA Tesla K80 12 GB GDDR5

373

NVIDIA Tesla K20Xm 6 GB GDDR5

372

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER 4 GB GDDR6

19 fps

AMD Radeon RX 570 4 GB GDDR5

18 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB GDDR5

18 fps

AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB GDDR5

17 fps

AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GDDR5

17 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 5 GB GDDR5

16 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB GDDR5

15 fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 8 GB GDDR6

42 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER 4 GB GDDR6

40 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 5 GB GDDR5

40 fps

AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB GDDR5

35 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB GDDR5

35 fps

AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GDDR5

35 fps

AMD Radeon RX 570 4 GB GDDR5

34 fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB GDDR5

62 fps

AMD Radeon RX 570 4 GB GDDR5

52 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 6 GB GDDR5X

51 fps

AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB GDDR5

50 fps

AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GDDR5

50 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 5 GB GDDR5

50 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 6 GB GDDR5

50 fps

GTA 5 1440p

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 8 GB GDDR6

40 fps

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile 4 GB GDDR6

38 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB GDDR5

38 fps

AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GDDR5

36 fps

AMD Radeon RX 470 4 GB GDDR5

34 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 4 GB GDDR6

30 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB GDDR5

30 fps

GTA 5 1080p

AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GDDR5

106 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB GDDR5

100 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB GDDR5

100 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 4 GB GDDR6

100 fps

AMD Radeon RX 570 4 GB GDDR5

100 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB GDDR5

98 fps

AMD Radeon RX 470 4 GB GDDR5

98 fps

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