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Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

The Radeon RX 480 has core speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 580, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1257 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific card. 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 580 13630 points
Radeon RX 480 13349 points
Difference: 281 (2%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 580 315 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 280 Sol/s
Difference: 35 (13%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 580 28 Mh/s
Radeon RX 480 27 Mh/s
Difference: 1 (4%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 800 h/s
Radeon RX 580 650 h/s
Difference: 150 (23%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 150 Watts
Radeon RX 580 185 Watts
Difference: 35 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same bandwidth, so theoretically they should perform the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 should be a bit (approximately 12%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

Radeon RX 580 181008 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 161280 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 19728 (12%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 will be just a bit (more or less 12%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 480, and able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 580 40224 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 35840 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4384 (12%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 480 Radeon RX 580
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year June 2016 April 2017
Code Name Polaris 10 Polaris 20
Memory 8192 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1120 MHz 1257 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 8000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 185 watts
Bandwidth 262144 MB/sec 262144 MB/sec
Texel Rate 161280 Mtexels/sec 181008 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 35840 Mpixels/sec 40224 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2304 2304
Texture Mapping Units 144 144
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 14 nm
Transistors 5700 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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