AMD Radeon RX 480 vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

ATI Radeon HD 4720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4720 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +1419%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4720

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon HD 4720

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Dec 2011

Arctic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

4

-

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

55W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

RV730

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

RV730 XT (215-0719047)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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