Radeon RX 480 and PlayStation 4 GPU - video card comparison

Radeon RX 480

PlayStation 4 GPU

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

Polaris 10 Ellesmere

Liverpool

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2016

November 2013

Bus support

n/a

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Bridgeless CrossFire

1

-

Boost clock speed

1266 MHz

-

Compute units

36

-

Core clock speed

1120 MHz

800 MHz

Floating-point performance

5,834 gflops

1,843 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

1152

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

182.3

57.60

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

5500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

176.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

2.0

-

DisplayPort support

1.4HDR

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

11.1*

Mantle

n/a

-

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

+

1.1

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

+

-