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Differences What are the advantages of each

Front view of Radeon RX 480

Reasons to consider the
AMD Radeon RX 480

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Much higher clock speed 1,120 MHz vs 498 MHz Around 2.2x higher clock speed
Much better floating-point performance 5,834 GFLOPS vs 39.84 GFLOPS Around 146.5x better floating-point performance
Much higher texture rate 182.3 GTexel/s vs 1.99 GTexel/s More than 91.5x higher texture rate
Many more shading units 2,304 vs 40 2264 more shading units
Higher pixel rate 40.5 GPixel/s vs 1.99 GPixel/s More than 20.2x higher pixel rate
Many more texture mapping units 144 vs 4 140 more texture mapping units
Significantly more compute units 36 vs 2 34 more compute units
More render output processors 32 vs 4 28 more render output processors
Front view of Radeon HD 4290 IGP

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ATi Radeon HD 4290 IGP

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GPUBoss is not aware of any important advantages of the ATi Radeon HD 4290 IGP vs the AMD Radeon RX 480.

Features Key features of the Radeon RX 480  vs HD 4290 IGP 

pixel rate Number of pixels a graphics card can render to the screen every second

Radeon RX 480
40.5 GPixel/s
Radeon HD 4290 IGP
1.99 GPixel/s

texture rate Speed at which a graphics card can perform texture mapping

Radeon RX 480
182.3 GTexel/s
Radeon HD 4290 IGP
1.99 GTexel/s

floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers

Radeon RX 480
5,834 GFLOPS
Radeon HD 4290 IGP
39.84 GFLOPS

shading units Subcomponents of the gpu, these run in parallel to enable fast pixel shading

texture mapping units Built into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes

compute units Discrete cores within the GPU

Specifications Full list of technical specs

gpu

Radeon RX 480  vs
HD 4290 IGP 
GPU brand AMD ATi
GPU name Ellesmere RS880D
Clock speed 1,120 MHz 498 MHz
Is dual GPU No No
Reference card None None

raw performance

Radeon RX 480  vs
HD 4290 IGP 
Shading units 2,304 40
Texture mapping units 144 4
Render output processors 32 4
Compute units 36 2
Pixel rate 40.5 GPixel/s 1.99 GPixel/s
Texture rate 182.3 GTexel/s 1.99 GTexel/s
Floating-point performance 5,834 GFLOPS 39.84 GFLOPS

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