GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which has core clock speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1070 should be a bit faster 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 is a small bit (more or less 12%) faster with regards to AF 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 a better choice, 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

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant 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.