GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380X, which has core speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 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

GeForce GTX 980		13552 points
Radeon R9 380X		9519 points
	Difference: 4033 (42%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
Radeon R9 380X		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (5%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980 should in theory perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 380X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 41600 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 is a bit (approximately 16%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 380X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19968 (16%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is superior to the Radeon R9 380X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41024 (132%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at 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 chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.