GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which has a core clock frequency of 1120 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2304 SPUs, 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 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		267 Sol/s
	Difference: 158 (59%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		25 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (14%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 46% quicker than the Radeon RX 480 4GB in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 106624 (46%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti should be a small bit (approximately 9%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14720 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60160 (168%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its 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 clock speed of the card. 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.