GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380X, which comes with a core clock frequency of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1425 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 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 380X		9519 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 1892 (25%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380X		19 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (73%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380X should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 70400 (63%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X should be a lot (approximately 72%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52032 (72%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be a bit (about 16%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380X, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5024 (16%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.