Radeon RX 480 and Radeon R7 (Carrizo) - video card comparison

Radeon RX 480

Radeon R7 (Carrizo)

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)

GPU code name

Polaris 10 Ellesmere

Carrizo

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

June 2016

June 2015

Bus support

n/a

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

-

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

-

Bridgeless CrossFire

1

-

Boost clock speed

1266 MHz

800 MHz

Compute units

36

-

Core clock speed

1120 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

5,834 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

2410 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

512

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

12-35 Watt

Texture fill rate

182.3

-

Memory type

GDDR5

-

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

-

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64/128 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

-

Memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

+

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

-

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

2.0

-

DisplayPort support

1.4HDR

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

12 (FL 12_0)

Mantle

n/a

-

OpenCL

2.0

-

OpenGL

4.5

-

Shader Model

6.4

-

Vulkan

+

-

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

+

-