Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1120 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 Stream Processors, 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 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 in general. (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 much (approximately 106%) faster with regards to 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 will be a lot (more or less 263%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 480 4GB, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.