AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 399.99

$ 1268.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

12767 points

496% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

270 FPS

225 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

178 FPS

146 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

247 FPS

202 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

104 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3316 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

2098.98 points

500% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

127642 points

198% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

142477 points

189% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

1800 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

2544 MHz

100% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

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

432 GB/s

92% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

63% significantly lower TDP

245 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

244 Gigapixels/s

502% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

550 Gigatexels/s

201% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

18.02 TFLOPS

208% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

4096

77% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

216

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586

29th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 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 7700 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7700 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 480 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 7700 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 7700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 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 significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7700 XT at 245 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7700 XT is better than the Radeon RX 480.