Radeon RX 480 and GeForce 256 DDR - video card comparison
Radeon RX 480
GeForce 256 DDR
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
NV10 A3
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
December 1999
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
-
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
120 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
220 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
17 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
-
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
182.3
0.48
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
32 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
300 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
4.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
2.0
-
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
7.0
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
-
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-