Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare those specifications 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 makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation 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

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

In theory, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be a lot faster than 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 will be much (approximately 106%) more effective at anisotropic filtering 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 (about 263%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 480 4GB, and will be capable of handling 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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.