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GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

The GeForce GTX 970M features clock speeds of 924 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M380, which has a core clock speed of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same bandwidth, so in theory they should have identical performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M should be quite a bit (approximately 85%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M380. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M 73920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M380 40000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 33920 (85%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970M is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M 44352 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 28352 (177%)

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

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GeForce GTX 970M

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 970M Radeon R9 M380
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 7 2014 2015
Code Name GM204 Cape Verde
Memory 3072 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 924 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 96000 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 73920 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 44352 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 640
Texture Mapping Units 80 40
Render Output Units 48 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 per second.

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

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GeForce GTX 970M

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Radeon R9 M380

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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