AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon VII

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

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 945.00

$ 723.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

6138 points

186% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

107 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

100 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

106 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

56 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

9129 points

121% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

817.47 points

133% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

42415 points

68286 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

86533 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

77122 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

51028 points

77386 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

92086 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

91729 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

1400 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

1750 MHz

38% slightly 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

4096 Bit

1500% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

1024 GB/s

357% 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

115.26 Gigapixels/s

184% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

137% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

13.8 TFLOPS

136% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

3840

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

240

66% significantly more texture mapping units

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

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

HBM2

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 VII benchmarks

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

The Radeon VII 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 VII also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon VII has significantly more memory with 16 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 VII at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon VII is faster than the Radeon RX 480.