GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1425 MHz on this particular card. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 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 GT 440 1.5GB		840 points
	Difference: 7997 (952%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 134 Watts (239%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 380 4G should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 139200 (322%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G should be a lot (about 662%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 94384 (662%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 4G is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16784 (118%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.