AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) and NVIDIA Titan X Pascal videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop)

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

  • Around 27% higher core clock speed: 1417 MHz vs 1120 MHz
  • Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1531 MHz vs 1266 MHz
  • 2.2x more texture fill rate: 342.9 GTexel / s vs 155.1 GTexel / s
  • Around 56% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2304
  • 1892.1x better floating-point performance: 10,974 gflops vs 5.8 TFLOPs
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 43% higher memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 7000 MHz
Core clock speed 1417 MHz vs 1120 MHz
Boost clock speed 1531 MHz vs 1266 MHz
Texture fill rate 342.9 GTexel / s vs 155.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines 3584 vs 2304
Floating-point performance 10,974 gflops vs 5.8 TFLOPs
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz vs 7000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

Name AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) NVIDIA Titan X Pascal
Geekbench - OpenCL 68139
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 165.792
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2368.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.829
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 21.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 992.132
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10841
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3333
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10841
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3333
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 9646

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Code name Ellesmere GP102
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 4 August 2016 2 August 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $450 $1,199
Place in performance rating not rated 345
Price now $299.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 30.62

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1266 MHz 1531 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1120 MHz 1417 MHz
Floating-point performance 5.8 TFLOPs 10,974 gflops
GPU Power 110 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 16 nm
Pipelines 2304 3584
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 155.1 GTexel / s 342.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 11,800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 480.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 10008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5X
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore

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