GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has GPU clock speed of 970 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1792 Stream Processors, 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 2G		8850 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 2314 (35%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380 2G		19 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (90%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (111%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380 2G, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 76672 (73%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G is a lot (approximately 121%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 59488 (121%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 is just a bit (approximately 6%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380 2G, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 is calculated by multiplying the total number 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.