GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1120 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		350 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon RX 480 4GB in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		934297 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 704921 (307%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should be much (about 171%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		436800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 275520 (171%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		152880 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 117040 (327%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.