Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 M485X vs AMD Radeon RX 480

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date May 2016 Jun 2016
Generation Crystal System Arctic Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 2000 MHz
Base Clock 1120 MHz
Boost Clock 1266 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 160.0GB/s 256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 36
Shading Units 2048 2304
TMUs 128 144
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 23.14 GPixel/s 40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 92.54 GTexel/s 182.3 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 2.961 TFLOPS 5.834 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 2.961 TFLOPS 5.834 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 185.1 GFLOPS 364.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Amethyst Ellesmere
GPU Variant Amethyst XT Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
Architecture GCN 3.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 5 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 366 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 150W
Outputs No outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors None 1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 6.3 6.7