Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 480, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		27629 points
Radeon RX 480		13349 points
	Difference: 14280 (107%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		710 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
	Difference: 430 (154%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

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

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be 89% faster than the Radeon RX 480 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 233472 (89%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is a lot (more or less 106%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.