GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 480, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this model. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce RTX 2070		22282 points
Radeon RX 480		13349 points
	Difference: 8933 (67%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2070, in theory, should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 480 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 196608 (75%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 should be quite a bit (more or less 26%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 41760 (26%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is much (approximately 152%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 480, and able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54400 (152%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling 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 video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.