GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 480, which features core clock speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 480		13349 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		4200 points
	Difference: 9149 (218%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 480 should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 118144 (82%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 is a lot (approximately 293%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 120288 (293%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 should be much (about 22%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.