Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which comes with clock speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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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.

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Radeon RX 480 4GB		25 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (56%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 480 4GB should in theory perform a small bit faster than the Geforce GTX 680 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 37120 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB will be a lot (more or less 25%) faster with regards to AF than the Geforce GTX 680. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32512 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 480 4GB is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3648 (11%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.