AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

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

Main Differences

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

AMD Radeon RX 570 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +14%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570

5.095 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480 +7%

4163

Radeon RX 570

3860

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480

17

Radeon RX 570 +5%

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480 +2%

35

Radeon RX 570

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480

50

Radeon RX 570 +4%

52

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 480

36

Radeon RX 570 +58%

57

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 480 +6%

106

Radeon RX 570

100

Radeon RX 480

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Radeon RX 570

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Apr 2017

Arctic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

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

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.81 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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 HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 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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