AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 1299.99

$ 368.99 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

19480 points

809% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

480 FPS

435 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

226 FPS

193 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

334 FPS

288 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

183 FPS

165 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

6585 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

8733.11 points

2397% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

241464 points

465% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

217807 points

342% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

2025 MHz

59% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

2375 MHz

87% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

678.4 GB/s

202% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

180% significantly lower TDP

420 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

228 Gigapixels/s

462% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

760 Gigatexels/s

316% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

48.64 TFLOPS

733% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

10240

344% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

320

122% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586

9th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2022 September

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 4080 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4080 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 480 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4080 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 480 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4080 is faster than the Radeon RX 480.