AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480 AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 XTX 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 355W)

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 161% (3300MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XTX +1290%

81.1 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon RX 7950 XTX

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

2200 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

3300 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

96

2304

Shading Units

6144

144

TMUs

384

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

96

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

633.6 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1267 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

162.2 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

81.10 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.534 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Navi 31

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XTX+

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

355W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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