AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points
5934 points
177% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS
150 FPS
106 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
75 FPS
42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS
103 FPS
57 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
57 FPS
40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points
3004.43 points
759% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points
111833 points
151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points
84673 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points
102733 points
140% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points
96388 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz
14% slightly higher core clock speed
1110 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz
1560 MHz
23% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

224 GB/s
448 GB/s
100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
115 W
30% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s
124.8 Gigapixels/s
208% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s
249.6 Gigatexels/s
36% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS
15.97 TFLOPS
173% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
5120
122% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
160
11% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
80
150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586
83rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop beats the Radeon RX 480 in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop is better than the Radeon RX 480.

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