AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 151.01 slightly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

33119 points

1446% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

787 FPS

742 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

382 FPS

349 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

567 FPS

521 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

318 FPS

301 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

9236 points

123% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

11723.75 points

3252% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

318192 points

644% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

273214 points

455% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

2235 MHz

76% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

2520 MHz

99% significantly 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

1010 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

483.8 Gigapixels/s

1094% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

607% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

1315% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

16384

611% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

512

255% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586

2nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2022 October

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 4090 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 480 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 at 450 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 4090 is better than the Radeon RX 480.