GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380X, which has a clock frequency of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1425 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 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 Titan		10162 points
Radeon R9 380X		9519 points
	Difference: 643 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX Titan should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon R9 380X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 105984 (58%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is quite a bit (approximately 51%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 380X. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 63328 (51%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9136 (29%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 potential to get to the max fill rate.