GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has GPU core speed of 970 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1792 Stream Processors, 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 GTX Titan		10162 points
Radeon R9 380 2G		8850 points
	Difference: 1312 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan should be 58% faster than the Radeon R9 380 2G in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 105984 (58%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be quite a bit (about 73%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78848 (73%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9136 (29%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.