Graphics card comparison
Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
AMD
Radeon RX 480
8192 Mb GDDR5
Released 29 Jun 2016
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
6144 Mb GDDR5
Released 18 Feb 2014
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- Radeon RX 480123%
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK100%
Relative performance
Gaming performance index
- Radeon RX 480114%
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 480
- 14% higher gaming performance.
- 100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 the GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the Radeon RX 480
The Radeon RX 480 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon RX 480 | GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK |
|---|
| GPU Name | Ellesmere (Ellesmere XT) | GK110B (GK110-430-B1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | 561 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,700 million | 7,080 million |
| Shaders | 2304 | 2880 |
| Compute Units | 36 | 15 |
| Core clock | 1120 MHz | 889 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| TMUs | 144 | 240 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon RX 480 | GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | 6144 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 480 | GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK |
|---|
| TDP | 150 watts | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 29 Jun 2016 | 18 Feb 2014 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon RX 48040.50 GP/s
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK53.30 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon RX 480182.30 GT/s
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK213.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon RX 480256.00 GB/s
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK336.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon RX 4805834.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK5121.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- Radeon RX 48018430
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK14880
Points (higher is better)
Game benchmarks
Thief 2014
DX11, Very High Details
- Radeon RX 48077
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK65
FPS (higher is better)
Thief 2014
DX11, Very High Details
- Radeon RX 48056
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK49
FPS (higher is better)
Thief 2014
DX11, Very High Details
- Radeon RX 48029
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK26
FPS (higher is better)