AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 R9 295X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +1%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Jun 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

36

2816

Shading Units

2304

176

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

150W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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