Radeon RX 480 and GP102 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 480

GP102

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Polaris 10 Ellesmere

GP102

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2016

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Bus support

n/a

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

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Bridgeless CrossFire

1

-

Boost clock speed

1266 MHz

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Compute units

36

-

Core clock speed

1120 MHz

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Floating-point performance

5,834 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

11,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

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Texture fill rate

182.3

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

2.0

-

DisplayPort support

1.4HDR

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DirectX

DirectX® 12

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

6.1

Mantle

n/a

-

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

+

1.3

AppAcceleration

n/a

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

n/a

-

FreeSync

+

-

FRTC

1

-

HD3D

n/a

-

LiquidVR

1

-

NVENC

-

6th Gen

PowerTune

+

-

PureVideo HD

-

VP8

TressFX

1

-

TrueAudio

n/a

-

UVD

+

-

VCE

+

-

ZeroCore

+

-