Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2016 Jan 2013
Generation Arctic Islands Sea Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1120 MHz
Boost Clock 1266 MHz
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 256.0GB/s 179.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 36 20
Shading Units 2304 1280
TMUs 144 80
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 40.51 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 182.3 GTexel/s 74.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.834 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.834 TFLOPS 2.368 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 364.6 GFLOPS 148.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Ellesmere Curacao
GPU Variant Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184) Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 2.8 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 212 mm²
Board Design
TDP 150W 175W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
Shader Model 6.7 5.1