GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which comes with core speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 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

The GeForce GTX 970, in theory, should be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 380 2G in general. (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 just a bit (about 1%) better at texture filtering 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 using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is the winner, by a large margin. (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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.