GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 480, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units 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 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
	Difference: 31 (11%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		800 h/s
GeForce GTX 1060		430 h/s
	Difference: 370 (86%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 480		13349 points
GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
	Difference: 990 (8%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 480 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 is quite a bit (about 34%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40800 (34%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the Radeon RX 480, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36448 (102%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number 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 colour ROPs by the the card's 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.