GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has core speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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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 Titan Black		11666 points
Radeon R9 380 2G		8850 points
	Difference: 2816 (32%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan Black is 84% quicker than the Radeon R9 380 2G in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 153600 (84%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is much (approximately 96%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 104720 (96%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is superior to the Radeon R9 380 2G, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11632 (37%)

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.

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Specifications

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

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.