AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 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 295W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1546MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 +117%

12.66 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4164

Radeon RX Vega 64 +80%

7522

Blender

Radeon RX 480

374

Radeon RX Vega 64 +76%

660

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480

17

Radeon RX Vega 64 +82%

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480

35

Radeon RX Vega 64 +77%

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480

50

Radeon RX Vega 64 +84%

92

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 480

36

Radeon RX Vega 64 +197%

107

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon RX Vega 64

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Aug 2017

Arctic Islands

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1247 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1546 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

64

-

2304

Shading Units

4096

144

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.94 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

395.8 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

25.33 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.66 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

791.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

295W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Vega 10

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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