Radeon Pro Duo vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 480, which features core clock speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs 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 Pro Duo		27167 points
Radeon RX 480		13349 points
	Difference: 13818 (104%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
Radeon Pro Duo		350 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Pro Duo should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon RX 480 overall. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		1024000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 761856 (291%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Pro Duo is quite a bit (approximately 217%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		512000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 350720 (217%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Pro Duo is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		128000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 92160 (257%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

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