Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 480, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 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

In theory, the Radeon RX 480 should be much faster than the Geforce GTX 670 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 will be quite a bit (more or less 57%) faster with regards to 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 running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 480 is superior to the Geforce GTX 670, 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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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