NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 480

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 1269.98 significantly less expensive

$ 1668.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

191% significantly better overall score

2142 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

129 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

139% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4130 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

146% significantly higher Blender score

349.71 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

42415 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

44522 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48947 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

51028 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

42732 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

49182 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

1266 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

1266 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

37% slightly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

37% slightly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

116% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

150 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

243% significantly higher pixel rate

40.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

94% significantly higher texture rate

182.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

94% significantly better floating point performance

5.83 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

55% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

55% significantly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

175% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

199th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 480 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 480 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has slightly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 480 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti over the Radeon RX 480.