GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which comes with core clock speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		267 Sol/s
	Difference: 286 (107%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		25 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1080		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (25%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		800 h/s
GeForce GTX 1080		475 h/s
	Difference: 325 (68%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1080 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon RX 480 4GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 98304 (43%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be much (approximately 59%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 95840 (59%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is quite a bit (about 187%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 480 4GB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.