GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 480, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific model. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		17120 points
Radeon RX 480		13349 points
	Difference: 3771 (28%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
	Difference: 145 (52%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (23%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti should in theory be much faster than the Radeon RX 480 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 73856 (28%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be just a bit (approximately 9%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14720 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 480, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60160 (168%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.