GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which comes with GPU core speed of 970 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1792 SPUs, 112 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

GeForce RTX 2070		22282 points
Radeon R9 380 2G		8850 points
	Difference: 13432 (152%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 2070 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon R9 380 2G in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 276352 (152%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 should be much (approximately 87%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 94400 (87%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 59200 (191%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.