AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 290
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2016
Nov 2013
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Volcanic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1077 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
40
Shading Units
2304
2560
TMUs
144
160
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
34.46 GPixel/s
60.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.1 GTexel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.963 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.963 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
310.2 GFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
275W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
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