GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 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

The Radeon R9 380 2G, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall. (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 will be quite a bit (about 107%) more effective 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 a small bit (about 18%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.