AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 560

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 149.39

$ 1519.59 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

159% significantly better overall score

825 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

125% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

168% significantly higher Blender score

130.09 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

42415 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

21032 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

19493 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

51028 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

23476 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

20226 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23100 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1175 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

1275 MHz

0.71% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

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

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

80 W

87% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

98% significantly higher pixel rate

20.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

123% significantly higher texture rate

81.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

123% significantly better floating point performance

2.61 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

125% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

125% significantly 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

275th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2017 April

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

Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 560 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 480 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 560 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 480 has a slightly 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 560 has a slightly 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 Radeon RX 480 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 560 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 480 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 480 is better than the Radeon RX 560.