GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which comes with core clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 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

Radeon R9 380 4G		8837 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 1210 (16%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380 4G		21 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 10 (91%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380 4G should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 70400 (63%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G should be a lot (approximately 51%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36512 (51%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the Radeon R9 380 4G, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5024 (16%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.