AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 570 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 570

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 213.30

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

11% slightly better overall score

1929 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

40 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

40 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3841 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

332.38 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

42415 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

40200 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

41087 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

42870 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

51028 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

45157 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

41113 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

47019 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

1168 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1244 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

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

1% slightly higher pixel rate

39.81 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

14% slightly higher texture rate

159.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

14% slightly better floating point performance

5.10 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

12% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

12% slightly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586

213th 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

4.6

Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 570 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 480 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 570 in our tests.

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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 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 570 have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 480 over the Radeon RX 570.