AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2016
Jan 2025
Generation
Arctic Islands
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1120 MHz
2017 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
2407 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
32GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
1.79TB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
—
Shading Units
2304
21760
TMUs
144
680
ROPs
32
176
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
96 MB
SM Count
—
170
Tensor Cores
—
680
RT Cores
—
170
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
423.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
1636.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
104.8 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
104.8 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS
1.637 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GB202
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
GB202-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
5 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
92.2 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
750 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
575W
Suggested PSU
450 W
950 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 16-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
Shader Model
6.7
6.9
CUDA
—
12.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
46,923
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
25,766
3DMark Speed Way
—
14,614
Blender
—
14,945
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.