Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380X, which comes with clock 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 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator 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

Radeon R9 380X		9519 points
Geforce GTX 680		7650 points
	Difference: 1869 (24%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380X		19 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (19%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 680 should perform a bit faster than the Radeon R9 380X in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 9856 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 will be a little bit (about 4%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 380X. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4608 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 680 is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1152 (4%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.