NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 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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$ 365.00

$ 1303.98 significantly less expensive

$ 1668.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

128% significantly better overall score

2142 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

82% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4130 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

73% significantly higher Blender score

349.71 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

42415 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

44522 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48947 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

51028 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

42732 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

49182 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

1266 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

36% slightly higher boost clock speed

1266 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

42% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

150 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

173% significantly higher pixel rate

40.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

52% significantly higher texture rate

182.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

52% significantly better floating point performance

5.83 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

11% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

11% slightly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

199th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

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 vs Radeon RX 480 specs and performance

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1080 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 480 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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