GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 480, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1120 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2304 Stream Processors, 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 480		13349 points
GeForce GTX Titan		10162 points
	Difference: 3187 (31%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan should in theory be a small bit better than the Radeon RX 480 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 26240 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be just a bit (about 16%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26208 (16%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is superior to the Radeon RX 480, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4336 (12%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past 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 must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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