GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed 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 Titan		10162 points
Radeon R9 380 2G		8850 points
	Difference: 1312 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan will be 58% quicker than the Radeon R9 380 2G in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan should be quite a bit (about 73%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78848 (73%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9136 (29%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.