Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480, which has core clock speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs 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 670		7351 points
	Difference: 5998 (82%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 670		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 14 (108%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 480 should be 37% quicker than the Geforce GTX 670 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
	Difference: 70144 (37%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 is quite a bit (approximately 57%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 670. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 58800 (57%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 480 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6560 (22%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.