AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 395.99

$ 1272.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

4311 points

101% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

89 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

64 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

78 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

37 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

7692 points

86% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

619.96 points

77% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

42415 points

56432 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

57968 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48131 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

51028 points

80618 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

65528 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

77765 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

1130 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

1560 MHz

23% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

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

99.8 Gigapixels/s

146% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

224.64 Gigatexels/s

23% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

7.19 TFLOPS

23% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

Identical

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

Identical

144

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

116th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 5600 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5600 XT beats the Radeon RX 480 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 5600 XT has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 480 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the Radeon RX 480 and the Radeon RX 5600 XT have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600 XT is better than the Radeon RX 480.