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

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