GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular 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		21942 points
Radeon RX 480		13349 points
	Difference: 8593 (64%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
	Difference: 273 (98%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1080		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (35%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		800 h/s
GeForce GTX 1080		475 h/s
	Difference: 325 (68%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1080 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 480 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be much (approximately 59%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 95840 (59%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67008 (187%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.