GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has 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 TAUs 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

Radeon R9 380 2G		8850 points
GeForce GTX 460		2557 points
	Difference: 6293 (246%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 380 2G should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 460 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 96000 (111%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G should be much (approximately 187%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 70840 (187%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 2G is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14840 (92%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount 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 number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.