Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 390 8G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 390 8G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 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 390 8G		12733 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 6810 (115%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 390 8G		28 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 15 (115%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon R9 390 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (62%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 390 8G should perform much faster than the Geforce GTX 760 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		384000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 191744 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390 8G will be quite a bit (about 70%) more effective at AF than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		160000 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 65920 (70%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 390 8G is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		64000 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32640 (104%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one 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 worked out 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.