GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1425 MHz on this specific card. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 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 460		2557 points
	Difference: 6280 (246%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 380 4G should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 460 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 96000 (111%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G should be a lot (about 187%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 70840 (187%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 4G is superior to the GeForce GTX 460, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.