GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which has core 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 GT 440 1.5GB		840 points
	Difference: 7997 (952%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 134 Watts (239%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380 4G, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 139200 (322%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G should be a lot (more or less 662%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 94384 (662%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 4G is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16784 (118%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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