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GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1070 features a core clock frequency of 1506 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 16 nm design. It is made up of 1920 SPUs, 120 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		267 Sol/s
	Difference: 169 (63%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		800 h/s
GeForce GTX 1070		475 h/s
	Difference: 325 (68%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1070 should theoretically be a bit better than the Radeon RX 480 4GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be a bit (approximately 12%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19440 (12%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60544 (169%)

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

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Model	GeForce GTX 1070	Radeon RX 480 4GB
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	June 2016	June 2016
Code Name	GP104-200	Polaris 10
Memory	8192 MB	4096 MB
Core Speed	1506 MHz	1120 MHz
Memory Speed	8000 MHz	7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP)	150 watts	150 watts
Bandwidth	262144 MB/sec	229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate	180720 Mtexels/sec	161280 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	96384 Mpixels/sec	35840 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	1920	2304
Texture Mapping Units	120	144
Render Output Units	64	32
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit
Fab Process	16 nm	14 nm
Transistors	7200 million	5700 million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version	DirectX 12.0	DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.5	OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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