Radeon RX 470 4GB vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare 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 along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		270 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		267 Sol/s
	Difference: 3 (1%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		27 Mh/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		25 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (8%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		800 h/s
Radeon RX 470 4GB		750 h/s
	Difference: 50 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 480 4GB should theoretically be a bit better than the Radeon RX 470 4GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 18176 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB is much (about 36%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42752 (36%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB should be much (more or less 21%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6208 (21%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.