AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

31% slightly better overall score

1632 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

33 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

35 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

31356 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

36756 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

1074 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1226 MHz

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

Identical

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

Identical

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

39.23 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

32% slightly higher texture rate

137.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

32% slightly better floating point performance

4.39 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

28% slightly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

28% slightly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586

232nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2019 March

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 RX 560 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 480 beats the Radeon RX 560 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 480 has a slightly 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 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, both the Radeon RX 480 and the Radeon RX 560 XT have an identical TDP. 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 RX 560 XT.