GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1425 MHz on this model. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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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 Black		11666 points
Radeon R9 380 4G		8837 points
	Difference: 2829 (32%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX Titan Black is 84% faster than the Radeon R9 380 4G in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 153600 (84%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be a lot (about 96%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 380 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 104720 (96%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11632 (37%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.