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GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1070 has clock speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1920 SPUs along with 120 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070 436 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB 267 Sol/s
Difference: 169 (63%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB 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

The GeForce GTX 1070, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 480 4GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB 229376 MB/sec
Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is a little bit (about 12%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB 161280 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 19440 (12%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is superior to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB 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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1070 Radeon RX 480 4GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2016 June 2016
Code Name GP104-200 Polaris 10
Memory 8192 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 1120 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 262144 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 180720 Mtexels/sec 161280 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 96384 Mpixels/sec 35840 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1920 2304
Texture Mapping Units 120 144
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 14 nm
Transistors 7200 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1070

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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