AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 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 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 137% (3000MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XT +1005%

64.51 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon RX 7950 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Unknown

Arctic Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

3000 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

800.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

84

-

2304

Shading Units

5376

144

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

192

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

80 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

576.0 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1008 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

129.0 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.51 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.016 TFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 XT+

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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