GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 970 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1792 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Address Units, 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 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 be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (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 much (approximately 121%) faster with regards to texture 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 should be just a bit (about 6%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 380 2G, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.