GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 390X 8G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 390X 8G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 TAUs 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

In theory, the Radeon R9 390X 8G should perform much 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 is a lot (approximately 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

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 390X 8G is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, by far. (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 MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.