AMD Radeon Pro W6800X vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (2087MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6800X +174%

16.03 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon Pro W6800X +289%

1455

Radeon RX 480

374

Radeon Pro W6800X

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

Jun 2016

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

Apple MPX

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1800 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

2087 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

36

3840

Shading Units

2304

240

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

200.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

500.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

32.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

16.03 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

1002 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Navi 21 Pro-XLA

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Apple MPX

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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