NVIDIA RTX A400 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

NVIDIA RTX A400 AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A400 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1762MHz vs 1266MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A400

2.706 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +115%

5.834 TFLOPS

RTX A400

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Apr 2024

Release Date

Jun 2016

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

727 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1762 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

768

Shading Units

2304

24

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

24

Tensor Cores

-

6

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.19 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

42.29 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

2.706 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

2.706 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

42.29 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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