GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which features core speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		267 Sol/s
	Difference: 169 (63%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		800 h/s
GeForce GTX 1070		475 h/s
	Difference: 325 (68%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1070 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 480 4GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be a bit (about 12%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19440 (12%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be a lot (more or less 169%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 480 4GB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60544 (169%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.