GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 390X 8G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 390X 8G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this model. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units and 64 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

Radeon R9 390X 8G		13555 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 5928 (78%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 390X 8G		330 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
	Difference: 176 (114%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 390X 8G		32 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 21 (191%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon R9 390X 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (129%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 390X 8G should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		384000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 272000 (243%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390X 8G will be much (about 156%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		184800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 112672 (156%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 390X 8G will be much (about 86%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 960, and will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31136 (86%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one 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 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per 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 - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.