Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 390X 8G

Intro

Compare all 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 makes use of a 512-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 2816 SPUs, 176 Texture Address Units, 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 760		5923 points
	Difference: 7632 (129%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 390X 8G		32 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 19 (146%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 390X 8G should theoretically be a lot superior to the Geforce GTX 760 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390X 8G should be a lot (approximately 96%) faster with regards to AF than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		184800 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 90720 (96%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 390X 8G should be much (more or less 114%) better at FSAA than the Geforce GTX 760, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		67200 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35840 (114%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling 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 card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.