GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs Radeon RX 480 Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated5
Place by popularitynot in top-10061
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data38.29
Power efficiencyno data19.05
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameEllesmereAD103
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 August 2016 (8 years ago)8 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$450 $999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores230410240
Core clock speed1000 MHz2295 MHz
Boost clock speed1077 MHz2550 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt320 Watt
Texture fill rate155.1816.0
Floating-point processing power4.963 TFLOPS52.22 TFLOPS
ROPs32112
TMUs144320
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data80

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data310 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1438 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s736.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 August 2016 8 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 320 Watt

RX 480 Mobile has 220% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080 SUPER, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 Mobile and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 480 Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile
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