GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare those specs 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 memory. 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

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		17120 points
Radeon RX 480		13349 points
	Difference: 3771 (28%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
	Difference: 145 (52%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (23%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti should theoretically perform much faster than the Radeon RX 480 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 73856 (28%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti should be a small bit (about 9%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14720 (9%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 168%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 480, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60160 (168%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.