NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 99% (2520MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

14080 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +1315%

82.58 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +777%

36549

Radeon RX 480

4163

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +3354%

12921

Radeon RX 480

374

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +988%

185

Radeon RX 480

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +700%

280

Radeon RX 480

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +508%

304

Radeon RX 480

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +413%

185

Radeon RX 480

36

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +75%

186

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 4090

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Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 40

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

16384

Shading Units

2304

512

TMUs

144

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

72 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Ellesmere

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

14 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

150W

850 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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