Radeon RX 470 4GB vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 480, which features core speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 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 480		280 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470 4GB		270 Sol/s
	Difference: 10 (4%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		27 Mh/s
Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		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		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 480, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 470 4GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 50944 (24%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 will be much (about 36%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 will be quite a bit (approximately 21%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.