Product Compare
AMD Radeon RX 480 vs ATI Radeon HD 5850
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jun 2016 | Sep 2009 |
| Generation | Arctic Islands | Evergreen |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1120 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1266 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 8GB | 1024MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 256.0GB/s | 128.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 36 | 18 |
| Shading Units | 2304 | 1440 |
| TMUs | 144 | 72 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 8 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | 512 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 40.51 GPixel/s | 23.20 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 182.3 GTexel/s | 52.20 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 5.834 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 5.834 TFLOPS | 2.088 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 364.6 GFLOPS | 417.6 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Ellesmere | Cypress |
| GPU Variant | Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184) | Cypress PRO(215-0735043) |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | TeraScale 2 |
| Foundry | GlobalFoundries | TSMC |
| Process Size | 14 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 5.7 billion | 2.154 billion |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | 334 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 150W | 151W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | 5.0 |