Radeon RX 470 4GB vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which comes with a clock speed of 1120 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		270 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		267 Sol/s
	Difference: 3 (1%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		27 Mh/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		25 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (8%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		800 h/s
Radeon RX 470 4GB		750 h/s
	Difference: 50 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 480 4GB should be 9% faster than the Radeon RX 470 4GB in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 18176 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB is a lot (more or less 36%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42752 (36%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 480 4GB is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6208 (21%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR 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 texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

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