GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480, which features GPU clock speed of 1120 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 Stream Processors, 144 Texture Address Units, 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1070		18174 points
Radeon RX 480		13349 points
	Difference: 4825 (36%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
	Difference: 156 (56%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		800 h/s
GeForce GTX 1070		475 h/s
	Difference: 325 (68%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be a bit (about 12%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19440 (12%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60544 (169%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high 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 number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.