GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380X, which has a clock speed of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1425 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up 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

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, the Radeon R9 380X should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X is a lot (about 136%) faster with regards to anisotropic 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 a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380X is a better choice, but not by far. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling 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 the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.