AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 GRE 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 260W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 77% (2245MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 GRE +688%

45.98 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4164

Radeon RX 7900 GRE +436%

22344

Blender

Radeon RX 480

374

Radeon RX 7900 GRE +732%

3114

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jul 2023

Arctic Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1287 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

2245 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

80

-

2304

Shading Units

5120

144

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

160

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

359.2 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

718.4 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

91.96 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

45.98 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1437 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

260W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Navi 31

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XL (215-145000206)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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