GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1425 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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

GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
Radeon R9 380X		9519 points
	Difference: 1348 (14%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970		19 Mh/s
Radeon R9 380X		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 970 should in theory be much faster than the Radeon R9 380X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 41600 (23%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X will be a small bit (approximately 14%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14960 (14%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is superior to the Radeon R9 380X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36160 (116%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can 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 Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.