AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega

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

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Price

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$ 1668.98
$ 499.95
$ 1169.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points
4692 points
119% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS
90 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
78 FPS
45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS
89 FPS
44 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
42 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points
770.19 points
120% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points
77618 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points
70183 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points
77896 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points
78175 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586
109th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series
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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
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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 Vega specs and performance

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

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

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