Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1425 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 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

Radeon R9 380X		9519 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 3596 (61%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380X		19 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (46%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 760 should be just a bit faster than the Radeon R9 380X in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 9856 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X is much (more or less 32%) more effective at AF than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 30080 (32%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the Radeon R9 380X, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 320 (1%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.