GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380X, which features a clock frequency of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1425 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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 380X		9519 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 1892 (25%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380X		19 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (73%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380X should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 70400 (63%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X will be quite a bit (approximately 72%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52032 (72%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5024 (16%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 applied per second. This is calculated 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.