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GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 980 features a clock speed of 1126 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which has GPU clock speed of 1120 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2304 Stream Processors, 144 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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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.

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB 25 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980 20 Mh/s
Difference: 5 (25%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 408 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB 267 Sol/s
Difference: 141 (53%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 165 Watts
Difference: 15 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 480 4GB should theoretically be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB 229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 224000 MB/sec
Difference: 5376 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB is a bit (approximately 12%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 980. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB 161280 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 144128 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 17152 (12%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 will be much (approximately 101%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 480 4GB, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB 35840 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 36224 (101%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 980 Radeon RX 480 4GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2014 June 2016
Code Name GM204-400 Polaris 10
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1126 MHz 1120 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 165 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 224000 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 144128 Mtexels/sec 161280 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72064 Mpixels/sec 35840 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 2304
Texture Mapping Units 128 144
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 5200 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at 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 chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 980

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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