GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 390X 8G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 390X 8G, which features a core clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 512-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2816 SPUs, 176 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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 390X 8G		13555 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 5928 (78%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 390X 8G		330 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
	Difference: 176 (114%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 390X 8G		32 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 21 (191%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon R9 390X 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (129%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 390X 8G should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		384000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 272000 (243%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390X 8G will be much (more or less 156%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		184800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 112672 (156%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon R9 390X 8G		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31136 (86%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.