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GeForce GT 440 3GB vs Radeon R9 390X 8G

Intro

The GeForce GT 440 3GB makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 594 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 144 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 24 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 390X 8G, which comes with a clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also features a 512-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2816 SPUs, 176 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 3GB 56 Watts
Radeon R9 390X 8G 275 Watts
Difference: 219 Watts (391%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 390X 8G should in theory be much better than the GeForce GT 440 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G 384000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB 43200 MB/sec
Difference: 340800 (789%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390X 8G is a lot (about 1196%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 440 3GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G 184800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB 14256 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 170544 (1196%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 390X 8G is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G 67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB 14256 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 52944 (371%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 440 3GB Radeon R9 390X 8G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 June 2015
Code Name GF106 Grenada XT
Memory 3072 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 594 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 56 watts 275 watts
Bandwidth 43200 MB/sec 384000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 14256 Mtexels/sec 184800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 14256 Mpixels/sec 67200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 144 2816
Texture Mapping Units 24 176
Render Output Units 24 64
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 512-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1170 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 440 3GB

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Radeon R9 390X 8G

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