ATI Radeon HD 4860 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4860

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +551%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jun 2016

Radeon R700

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

36

-

640

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

896.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

179.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

Ellesmere

RV790 GT

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

282 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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