AMD Radeon RX 460 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 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 RX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1266MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 460

2.15 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +171%

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 460

1725

Radeon RX 480 +141%

4162

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 460

3

Radeon RX 480 +466%

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 460

12

Radeon RX 480 +191%

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 460

22

Radeon RX 480 +127%

50

Radeon RX 460

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jun 2016

Arctic Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

36

896

Shading Units

2304

56

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

67.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

2.150 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

2.150 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

134.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Baffin PRO

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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