Radeon RX 470 4GB vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which features core 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		270 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		267 Sol/s
	Difference: 3 (1%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		27 Mh/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		25 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (8%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		800 h/s
Radeon RX 470 4GB		750 h/s
	Difference: 50 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 480 4GB should in theory be a bit superior to the Radeon RX 470 4GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 18176 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB should be a lot (more or less 36%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42752 (36%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 480 4GB is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6208 (21%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.