GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which has a clock frequency of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1425 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation 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 4G		8837 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 1210 (16%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380 4G		21 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 10 (91%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 380 4G should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 70400 (63%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G will be a lot (about 51%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36512 (51%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be a little bit (approximately 16%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380 4G, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5024 (16%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.