Geforce GTX 770 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480, which comes with a clock frequency of 1120 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 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

Radeon RX 480		13349 points
Geforce GTX 770		7854 points
	Difference: 5495 (70%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 770		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 13 (93%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
Geforce GTX 770		70 Sol/s
	Difference: 210 (300%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 770		230 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 480 will be 17% faster than the Geforce GTX 770 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
	Difference: 37760 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 is just a bit (about 20%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 770. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27392 (20%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 480 is superior to the Geforce GTX 770, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2368 (7%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.