AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1695MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +34%

5.834 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon RX 480

374

A16 PCIe +36%

510

Radeon RX 480

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Apr 2021

Arctic Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA107

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

232 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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