AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

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AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 94% (2460MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 +158%

15.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4162

GeForce RTX 4060 +155%

10624

Blender

Radeon RX 480

374

GeForce RTX 4060 +842%

3524

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480

17

GeForce RTX 4060 +170%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480

35

GeForce RTX 4060 +168%

94

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480

50

GeForce RTX 4060 +232%

166

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 480

36

GeForce RTX 4060 +150%

90

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 4060 +79%

190

Radeon RX 480

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GeForce RTX 4060

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

May 2023

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1830 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

3072

144

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

AD107

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

AD107-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

159 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

115W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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