NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 99% (2520MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

19456 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +1780%

109.7 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 50

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

170

SM Count

-

21760

Shading Units

2304

680

TMUs

144

192

ROPs

32

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

88 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

150W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

4 nm

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.7 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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