AMD Radeon RX 570 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1266MHz vs 1244MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +14%

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 570

3860

Radeon RX 480 +7%

4163

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 570 +5%

18

Radeon RX 480

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 570

34

Radeon RX 480 +2%

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 570 +4%

52

Radeon RX 480

50

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 570 +58%

57

Radeon RX 480

36

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 570

100

Radeon RX 480 +6%

106

Radeon RX 570

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Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2016

Polaris

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

36

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

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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