GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1120 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 Stream Processors, 144 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

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

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is much (approximately 51%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 82984 (51%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67008 (187%)

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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.