AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 480

Price

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$ 488.33

$ 1180.65 significantly less expensive

$ 1668.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

151% significantly better overall score

2142 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

132% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4130 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

180% significantly higher Blender score

349.71 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

68311 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

42415 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

44522 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48947 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

94209 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

51028 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

42732 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

49182 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

1266 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

50% significantly higher boost clock speed

1266 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

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

448 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

150 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

200% significantly higher pixel rate

40.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

67% significantly higher texture rate

182.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

67% significantly better floating point performance

5.83 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

11% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

11% slightly more texture mapping units

144

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

93rd of 586

199th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon RX 480 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 480 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 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 5700 XT at 225 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 480.