Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which has a clock speed of 1120 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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 1080 Ti		710 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		267 Sol/s
	Difference: 443 (166%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		800 h/s
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		510 h/s
	Difference: 290 (57%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon RX 480 4GB overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 266240 (116%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 106%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 170240 (106%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be a lot (approximately 263%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 480 4GB, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 94400 (263%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.