AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 541.95

$ 1127.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

12174 points

468% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

289 FPS

245 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

141 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

206 FPS

161 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

114 FPS

97 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

5402.96 points

1444% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

168368 points

294% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

158623 points

222% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

2190 MHz

72% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

2430 MHz

91% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

360 GB/s

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

100% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

379% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

198% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

497% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

7168

211% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

224

55% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586

31st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2023 April

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 4070 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 480 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly 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 4070 also has a significantly 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 4070 has significantly more memory with 12 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 4070 at 300 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 4070 is better than the Radeon RX 480.