AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 1499.95

$ 169.03 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

16207 points

656% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

382 FPS

338 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

188 FPS

155 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

275 FPS

230 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

151 FPS

134 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

21929 points

430% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

6069.41 points

1635% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

229738 points

416% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

141134 points

188% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

207329 points

385% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

187369 points

280% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

1560 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

1560 MHz

23% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

24 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

1008 GB/s

350% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

200% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

208.3 Gigapixels/s

414% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

625 Gigatexels/s

242% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

40 TFLOPS

585% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

10752

366% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

336

133% significantly more texture mapping units

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

199th of 586

16th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce RTX 3090 Ti specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3090 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 480 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at 450 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 3090 Ti over the Radeon RX 480.