AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 580 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1340MHz vs 1266MHz)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +5%

6.175 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580 +4%

4359

Radeon RX 480

4163

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 580

17

Radeon RX 480

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 580

35

Radeon RX 480

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 580

50

Radeon RX 480

50

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580 +66%

60

Radeon RX 480

36

Radeon RX 580

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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

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

36

2304

Shading Units

2304

144

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

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

185W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-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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