AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points
13% slightly better overall score
1882 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS
49 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
18 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points
697.32 points
99% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
40962 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
37410 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz
52% significantly higher core clock speed
832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz
1537 MHz
21% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s
133% significantly higher memory bandwidth
96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s
49.18 Gigapixels/s
21% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s
85% significantly higher texture rate
98.37 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
12% slightly more shading units
2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
125% significantly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586
216th 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
2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Radeon RX 480 vs RTX A500 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A500 Laptop GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 480 in gaming.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the RTX A500 Laptop is faster than the Radeon RX 480.

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