GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380X, which comes with GPU core speed of 970 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 Stream Processors, 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

Radeon R9 380X		9519 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		4200 points
	Difference: 5319 (127%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380X is 27% quicker than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 38400 (27%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X should be much (approximately 203%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 83168 (203%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380X is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1760 (6%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure 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 card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.