AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT 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 230W)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 104% (2581MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT +126%

13.21 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4162

Radeon RX 6700 XT +206%

12772

Blender

Radeon RX 480

374

Radeon RX 6700 XT +339%

1642

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480

17

Radeon RX 6700 XT +205%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480

35

Radeon RX 6700 XT +174%

96

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480

50

Radeon RX 6700 XT +184%

142

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 480

36

Radeon RX 6700 XT +188%

104

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 480

106

Radeon RX 6700 XT +56%

166

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon RX 6700 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Mar 2021

Arctic Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

2321 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

40

2304

Shading Units

2560

144

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.43 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

825.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Navi 22

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

230W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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