NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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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$ 1549.99

$ 118.99 slightly less expensive

$ 1668.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

553% significantly better overall score

2142 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

288 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

136 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

195 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

382% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4130 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

1564% significantly higher Blender score

349.71 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

360% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

44522 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

183% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48947 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

355% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

42732 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

265% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

49182 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

1266 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

1266 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

200% significantly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

317% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

150 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

368% significantly higher pixel rate

40.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

204% significantly higher texture rate

182.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

509% significantly better floating point performance

5.83 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

355% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

127% significantly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

199th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 480 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 480 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 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 RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 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 significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 is better than the Radeon RX 480.