GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 480, which has a clock frequency of 1120 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1080		21942 points
Radeon RX 480		13349 points
	Difference: 8593 (64%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
	Difference: 273 (98%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1080		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (35%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		800 h/s
GeForce GTX 1080		475 h/s
	Difference: 325 (68%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1080 should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon RX 480 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is quite a bit (approximately 59%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 95840 (59%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is superior to the Radeon RX 480, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per 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 the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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