Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX 480

Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470
GeForce GTX 480
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 480

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 470
    292%
  • GeForce GTX 480
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470

130 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 480 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 192% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 480

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

The Radeon RX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470GeForce GTX 480
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsGF100 (GF100-375-A3)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs529 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs3,100 million
Shaders2048vs480
Compute Units32vs15
Core clock926 MHzvs701 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs128vs60

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470GeForce GTX 480
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs924 MHz
3696 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470GeForce GTX 480
TDP120 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs26 Mar 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 480
    21.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 480
    42.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 480
    177.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 480
    1345.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 470
    16690
  • GeForce GTX 480
    5700

Points (higher is better)