GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1425 MHz on this particular card. It features 1792 SPUs along with 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 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

In theory, the Radeon R9 380 4G should perform much faster 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 is quite a bit (about 51%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering 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 will be a little bit (about 16%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 380 4G, and capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 most pixels the video card 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 colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.