AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

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AMD Radeon RX 480 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 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 345W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1677MHz 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 Liquid Cooling +135%

13.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

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Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

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

1406 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1677 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

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

64

2304

Shading Units

4096

144

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.3 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

429.3 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.48 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.74 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

858.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Vega 10

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

345W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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