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AMD Radeon RX 480
GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon RX 480 based on its noise and power.
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Released June, 2016
AMD Radeon RX 480
- 1.1 GHz
- 8 GB GDDR5
7.5 Out of 10
by Ryan-Shrout (Jun, 2016)The “boost” clock of 1266 MHz is actually the maximum clock speed of the GPU (without overclocking) and its highest voltage state.
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Released August, 2015
AMD Radeon R9 Nano
- 1 GHz
- 4 GB
8 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!VRM temperatures are good, thanks to the extra heatpipe providing extra cooling.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of RX 480 vs R9 Nano among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much higher effective memory clock speed | 8,000 MHz | vs | 1,000 MHz | 8x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
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| Significantly more memory | 8,192 MB | vs | 4,096 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Higher clock speed | 1,120 MHz | vs | 1,000 MHz | More than 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Much higher memory clock speed | 2,000 MHz | vs | 500 MHz | 4x higher memory clock speed | |||
| Lower TDP | 150W | vs | 175W | Around 15% lower TDP | |||
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| Better floating-point performance | 8,192 GFLOPS | vs | 5,834 GFLOPS | More than 40% better floating-point performance | |||
| Much wider memory bus | 4,096 bit | vs | 256 bit | 16x wider memory bus | |||
| Many more shading units | 4,096 | vs | 2,304 | 1792 more shading units | |||
| Many more texture mapping units | 256 | vs | 144 | 112 more texture mapping units | |||
| Higher texture rate | 256 GTexel/s | vs | 182.3 GTexel/s | More than 40% higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly more render output processors | 64 | vs | 32 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 64 GPixel/s | vs | 40.5 GPixel/s | Around 60% higher pixel rate | |||
| Significantly more compute units | 64 | vs | 36 | 28 more compute units | |||
| Higher battlefield 4 framerate | 100 | vs | 82 | More than 20% higher battlefield 4 framerate | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon RX 480 vs R9 Nano
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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