Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 480, which has core clock speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 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

Nvidia Titan Xp		27938 points
Radeon RX 480		13349 points
	Difference: 14589 (109%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Nvidia Titan Xp		810 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
	Difference: 530 (189%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Nvidia Titan Xp should be 114% quicker than the Radeon RX 480 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 298701 (114%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp is quite a bit (about 135%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 218400 (135%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 116032 (324%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 processed in a second.

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