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Radeon R9 380X vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

The Radeon R9 380X has core speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has GPU clock speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 5120 Stream Processors, 320 TAUs, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380X 190 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT 335 Watts
Difference: 145 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should be much faster than the Radeon R9 380X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT 589824 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X 182400 MB/sec
Difference: 407424 (223%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be a lot (about 396%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 380X. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT 616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380X 124160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 491840 (396%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be a lot (approximately 694%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380X, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT 246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X 31040 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 215360 (694%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 380X Radeon RX 6950 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year November 2015 May 2022
Code Name Tonga XT Navi 21
Memory 4096 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 970 MHz 1925 MHz
Memory Speed 5700 MHz 4500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 190 watts 335 watts
Bandwidth 182400 MB/sec 589824 MB/sec
Texel Rate 124160 Mtexels/sec 616000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 31040 Mpixels/sec 246400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 5120
Texture Mapping Units 128 320
Render Output Units 32 128
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 5000 million 26800 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon R9 380X

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Radeon RX 6950 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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