AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1668.98
$ 729.99
$ 938.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points
20954 points
878% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS
421 FPS
377 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
302 FPS
270 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS
380 FPS
335 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
172 FPS
155 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points
7249 points
75% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points
3144.45 points
799% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points
160380 points
275% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points
194640 points
295% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz
2970 MHz
134% 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
640 GB/s
185% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s
380.2 Gigapixels/s
838% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS
48.7 TFLOPS
734% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
128
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586
8th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series
Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 9070 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 480 in gaming.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 9070 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is better than the Radeon RX 480.

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