AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 98% (2505MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB +735%

48.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Sep 2022

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

76

2304

Shading Units

9728

144

TMUs

304

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

320W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

AD103

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

4 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

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

6.6

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