Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon Pro Duo

Radeon RX 480
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 480
Radeon Pro Duo
Memory: 4096Mb HBMDESKTOP
Release date: 14 Mar 2016
Radeon Pro Duo

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 480

200 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon Pro Duo .
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon Pro Duo

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon Pro Duo

HWBench recommends Radeon Pro Duo

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 480Radeon Pro Duo
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)vsCapsaicin (Capsaicin XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs596 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs8,900 million
Shaders2304vs4096
Compute Units36vs64
Core clock1120 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs144vs256

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 480Radeon Pro Duo
Memory TypeGDDR5vsHBM
Bus Width256 bitvs4096 bit x2
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 480Radeon Pro Duo
TDP150 wattsvs350 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs14 Mar 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 480
    40.50 GP/s
  • Radeon Pro Duo
    128.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 480
    182.30 GT/s
  • Radeon Pro Duo
    512.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 480
    256.00 GB/s
  • Radeon Pro Duo
    1024.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 480
    5834.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon Pro Duo
    16384.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better