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Radeon HD 6970 vs Radeon R9 380 2G
IntroThe Radeon HD 6970 comes with core speeds of 880 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs along with 96 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1425 MHz on this card. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.
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Memory BandwidthIn theory, the Radeon R9 380 2G should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6970 in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon R9 380 2G will be a lot (approximately 29%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6970. (explain)
Pixel RateThe Radeon R9 380 2G should be a little bit (more or less 10%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 6970, and capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)
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
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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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