Radeon 535 Mobile vs RX 480

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	230	not rated
Place by popularity	100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	11.48	no data
Architecture	Polaris (2016−2019)	GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name	Polaris 10 Ellesmere	Polaris 24
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	29 June 2016 (8 years ago)	18 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$229	no data
Current price	$174 (0.8x MSRP)	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2304	384
Core clock speed	1120 MHz	730 MHz
Boost clock speed	1266 MHz	1024 MHz
Number of transistors	5,700 million	1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	182.3	24.58
Floating-point performance	5,834 gflops	784.1 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon RX 480 and Radeon 535 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	241 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz	4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s	36 GB/s
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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	no data

Supported technologies

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

FreeSync

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no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.4	6.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	29 June 2016	18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	50 Watt

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