AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon R5

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R5, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R5

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 45.99

$ 1622.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

2000% significantly better overall score

102 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

814% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4869 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

848% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5160 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

719% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5213 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

869% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5075 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

533% significantly higher core clock speed

200 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

15 W

900% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

1236% significantly higher pixel rate

3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

1402% significantly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

800% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

800% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586

503rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2017 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon R5 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 480 beats the Radeon R5 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 480 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 Radeon RX 480 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon R5 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon RX 480 at 150 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 Radeon RX 480 over the Radeon R5.