AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 7730

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 480 and AMD Radeon HD 7730 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 40% higher core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 9.5x more texture fill rate: 182.3 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
  • 6x more pipelines: 2304 vs 384
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 4500 MHz
  • 7.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8613 vs 1208
  • Around 94% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 777 vs 400
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 June 2016 vs 1 May 2013
Core clock speed 1120 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate 182.3 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2304 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 4500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8613 vs 1208
PassMark - G2D Mark 777 vs 400

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7730

  • 105.9x better floating-point performance: 614.4 gflops vs 5.8 TFLOPs
  • 3.2x lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 150 Watt
Floating-point performance 614.4 gflops vs 5.8 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 47 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 480
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7730

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8613
1208
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
777
400
Name AMD Radeon RX 480 AMD Radeon HD 7730
PassMark - G3D Mark 8613 1208
PassMark - G2D Mark 777 400
Geekbench - OpenCL 39256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 103.851
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 769.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 7.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 67.879
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 597.772
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11172
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11172
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4165

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 480 AMD Radeon HD 7730

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Ellesmere Cape Verde
Design Radeon RX 400 Series AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 29 June 2016 1 May 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $229 $59
Place in performance rating 354 357
Price now $299.99 $49.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 39.12 37.12

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1266 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1120 MHz 800 MHz
Floating-point performance 5.8 TFLOPs 614.4 gflops
GPU Power 110 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2304 384
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 182.3 GTexel / s 19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 47 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 1,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support n / a
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 241 mm 168 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_1)
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 72 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 4500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
Enduro
FreeSync
FRTC
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HD3D
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore