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GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 950 makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1024 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1652 MHz on this particular card. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which features clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs 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 GTX 950 6536 points
Difference: 2301 (35%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380 4G 21 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950 10 Mh/s
Difference: 11 (110%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950 90 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G 190 Watts
Difference: 100 Watts (111%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380 4G should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950 105728 MB/sec
Difference: 76672 (73%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G is much (more or less 121%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950 49152 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 59488 (121%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is a better choice, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950 32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G 31040 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1728 (6%)

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 GTX 950 Radeon R9 380 4G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year August 2015 June 2015
Code Name GM206 Antigua PRO
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1024 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 6608 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 90 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 105728 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 49152 Mtexels/sec 108640 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32768 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 768 1792
Texture Mapping Units 48 112
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2940 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 950

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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