NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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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$ 367.70

$ 1301.28 significantly less expensive

$ 1668.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7102 points

231% significantly better overall score

2142 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11016 points

166% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4130 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points

569% significantly higher Blender score

349.71 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

44522 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87178 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48947 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

42732 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

49182 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

1266 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

35% 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

448 GB/s

100% 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

109.4 Gigapixels/s

170% significantly higher pixel rate

40.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

72% significantly higher texture rate

182.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

72% significantly better floating point performance

5.83 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

27% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

27% 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

67th of 586

199th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon RX 480 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 480 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 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 RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 over the Radeon RX 480.