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GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 970 features clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1664 SPUs as well as 104 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1425 MHz on this model. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 970 10867 points
Radeon R9 380 2G 8850 points
Difference: 2017 (23%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970 19 Mh/s
Radeon R9 380 2G 19 Mh/s
Difference: 0 (0%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970 145 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G 190 Watts
Difference: 45 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 970 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 380 2G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 224000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G 182400 MB/sec
Difference: 41600 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 should be a little bit (approximately 1%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G 108640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 560 (1%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 should be much (more or less 116%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 380 2G, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G 31040 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 36160 (116%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 970 Radeon R9 380 2G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2014 June 2015
Code Name GM204-200 Antigua PRO
Memory 4096 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1050 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 224000 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 109200 Mtexels/sec 108640 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 67200 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1664 1792
Texture Mapping Units 104 112
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5200 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 970

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Radeon R9 380 2G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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