Radeon RX 480 4GB vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, which has GPU clock speed of 1680 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 480 4GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 229376 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is quite a bit (more or less 67%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 107520 (67%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is superior to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71680 (200%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.