AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 339.79

$ 1329.19 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

6694 points

212% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

161 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

77 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

113 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

61 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

78% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

3124.65 points

793% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

101567 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

99687 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

1925 MHz

52% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

2075 MHz

63% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

288 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

33% slightly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

227% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

109% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

318% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

5888

155% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

184

27% slightly more texture mapping units

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

199th of 586

73rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 4060 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 480 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4060 has a significantly 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 4060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon RX 480 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 is better than the Radeon RX 480.