GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380X, which has a core clock frequency of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1425 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, 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

GeForce GTX Titan Black		11666 points
Radeon R9 380X		9519 points
	Difference: 2147 (23%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX Titan Black is 84% quicker than the Radeon R9 380X overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 153600 (84%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be a lot (approximately 72%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 380X. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 89200 (72%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11632 (37%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.