AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM
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Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2016
Dec 2013
Generation
Arctic Islands
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1120 MHz
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Boost Clock
1266 MHz
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Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1625 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
104.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
14
Shading Units
2304
896
TMUs
144
56
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
17.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
1.971 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Bonaire
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
Bonaire XT(215-0839039)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
85W
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 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 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
Shader Model
6.7
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.