AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6700

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 283.79

$ 1385.19 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

5776 points

169% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

116 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

87 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

103 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

50 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

105% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2007 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

1351.36 points

286% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

51028 points

125070 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

92543 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

107859 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

1941 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

2450 MHz

93% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

10 GiB

25% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

320 GB/s

42% much higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

16% slightly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

156.8 Gigapixels/s

287% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

352.8 Gigatexels/s

93% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

11.29 TFLOPS

93% significantly 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

86th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2021 June

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 6700 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6700 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 480 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 has a significantly 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 6700 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6700 has slightly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 480 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 at 175 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 6700 is better than the Radeon RX 480.