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Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

The Radeon RX 470 comes with a clock frequency of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1650 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 289 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB 267 Sol/s
Difference: 22 (8%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 26 Mh/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB 25 Mh/s
Difference: 1 (4%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

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

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 120 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 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB will be quite a bit (more or less 36%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB is a lot (more or less 21%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon RX 470, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB 35840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 470 Radeon RX 480 4GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year August 2016 June 2016
Code Name Polaris 10 Polaris 10
Memory 8192 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 926 MHz 1120 MHz
Memory Speed 6600 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 211200 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 118528 Mtexels/sec 161280 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29632 Mpixels/sec 35840 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 2304
Texture Mapping Units 128 144
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 14 nm
Transistors 5700 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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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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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