AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 560 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1275MHz vs 1266MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +123%

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560

1796

Radeon RX 480 +131%

4163

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 560

3

Radeon RX 480 +466%

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 560

12

Radeon RX 480 +191%

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 560

21

Radeon RX 480 +138%

50

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560

94

Radeon RX 480 +12%

106

Radeon RX 560

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2016

Polaris

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

36

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

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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