Geforce GTX 780 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which comes with core clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 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 780		10082 points
Radeon R9 380 2G		8850 points
	Difference: 1232 (14%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 780		20 Mh/s
Radeon R9 380 2G		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (5%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
Geforce GTX 780		250 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 780 is 58% faster than the Radeon R9 380 2G overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		288384 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 105984 (58%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 should be a lot (more or less 53%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		165696 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57056 (53%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 780 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		41424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10384 (33%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.