Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1120 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2304 Stream Processors, 144 TAUs, 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.

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Radeon RX 480 4GB		25 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (56%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 480 4GB should theoretically perform a little bit faster than the Geforce GTX 680 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 37120 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB should be quite a bit (approximately 25%) better at texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 680. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32512 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB is a bit (about 11%) more effective at FSAA than the Geforce GTX 680, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3648 (11%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel 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.