GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which features a clock speed of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1425 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 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 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380 4G should perform much 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 will be a lot (about 121%) more effective at 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 lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is a better choice, though not by far. (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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant 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.