AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 659.00

$ 1009.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

11265 points

425% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

231 FPS

186 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

167 FPS

134 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

204 FPS

158 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

97 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

19436 points

370% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

2414.65 points

590% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

42415 points

150488 points

254% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

157812 points

254% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

100571 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

51028 points

200077 points

292% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

154801 points

262% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

157877 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

2015 MHz

59% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

2250 MHz

77% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

512 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

100% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

288 Gigapixels/s

610% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

648 Gigatexels/s

255% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

255% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

4608

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

288

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586

33rd 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

2020 November

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 6800 XT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 480 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6800 XT 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 6800 XT 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 6800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 480 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6800 XT over the Radeon RX 480.