GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

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

Specifications

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.