GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has a GPU core clock speed of 970 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1792 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Address Units, 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

Radeon R9 380 2G		8850 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 5384 (155%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380 2G should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 54144 (42%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G should be much (about 107%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56032 (107%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G is just a bit (about 18%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4736 (18%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.