GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1425 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 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 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 6053 (175%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380X should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 54144 (42%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X is quite a bit (approximately 136%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 71552 (136%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380X is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4736 (18%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.