GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380X, which has core clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 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

GeForce GTX 980		13552 points
Radeon R9 380X		9519 points
	Difference: 4033 (42%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
Radeon R9 380X		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (5%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 should be much faster than the Radeon R9 380X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 41600 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 will be a bit (more or less 16%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 380X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19968 (16%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is superior to the Radeon R9 380X, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41024 (132%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 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 applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.