Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which features GPU clock speed of 970 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1792 Stream Processors, 112 TAUs, 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 670		7351 points
	Difference: 1486 (20%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380 4G		21 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 670		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (62%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 670 is 5% faster than the Radeon R9 380 4G overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 9600 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G will be a bit (approximately 6%) better at texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 670. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6160 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 4G is superior to the Geforce GTX 670, but only just. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1760 (6%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.