Radeon R5 Graphics vs RX 480

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking250not rated
Place by popularity97not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation15.82no data
Power efficiency10.21no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameEllesmereSpectre SL
GCN generation4th Genno data
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date29 June 2016 (8 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

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 cores2304256
Compute units36no data
Core clock speed1120 MHz497 MHz
Boost clock speed1266 MHz720 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate182.37.952
Floating-point processing power5.834 TFLOPS0.2545 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs14416

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).

Bus supportn/ano data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed8000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth224 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
HDMI2.0-
DisplayPort support1.4HDR-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAccelerationn/a-
CrossFire+-
Enduron/a-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3Dn/a-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudion/a-
ZeroCore+-
UVD+-
VCE+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.0
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan+1.2.131
Mantlen/a-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 June 2016 17 September 2014
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 15 Watt

RX 480 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

R5 Graphics, on the other hand, has 900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 and Radeon R5 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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