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GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 970 uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 1664 SPUs as well as 104 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1425 MHz on this card. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units 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

GeForce GTX 970 10867 points
Radeon R9 380 2G 8850 points
Difference: 2017 (23%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970 19 Mh/s
Radeon R9 380 2G 19 Mh/s
Difference: 0 (0%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970 145 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G 190 Watts
Difference: 45 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 970 will be 23% faster than the Radeon R9 380 2G in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 224000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G 182400 MB/sec
Difference: 41600 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 will be a small bit (more or less 1%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G 108640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 560 (1%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G 31040 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 36160 (116%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 970 Radeon R9 380 2G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2014 June 2015
Code Name GM204-200 Antigua PRO
Memory 4096 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1050 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 224000 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 109200 Mtexels/sec 108640 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 67200 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1664 1792
Texture Mapping Units 104 112
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5200 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 970

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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