NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon R9 380

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 380

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 269.00 significantly less expensive

$ 589.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

184% significantly better overall score

1280 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

72 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

115% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2801 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29877 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33763 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28196 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

33667 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

970 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

73% significantly higher boost clock speed

970 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

6307% significantly higher memory bandwidth

4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

26% slightly lower TDP

190 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

246% significantly higher pixel rate

31.04 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

86% significantly higher texture rate

108.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

85% significantly better floating point performance

3.48 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

7% slightly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

7% slightly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

244th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 380 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 beats the Radeon R9 380 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1070 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon R9 380 at 190 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 over the Radeon R9 380.