Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1425 MHz on this particular card. 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

Nvidia Titan Xp		27938 points
Radeon R9 380X		9519 points
	Difference: 18419 (193%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Nvidia Titan Xp should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R9 380X overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 378445 (207%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp should be much (about 206%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 380X. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 255520 (206%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp is quite a bit (about 389%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 380X, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 120832 (389%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.