NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon R9 380

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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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$ 1549.99

$ 589.00

$ 960.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

993% significantly better overall score

1280 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

303 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

150 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

215 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

124 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

611% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2801 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

585% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29877 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

311% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33763 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

589% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28196 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

434% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

33667 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

970 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

74% significantly higher boost clock speed

970 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

499% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

23304% significantly higher memory bandwidth

4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

190 W

84% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

511% significantly higher pixel rate

31.04 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

411% significantly higher texture rate

108.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

923% significantly better floating point performance

3.48 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

485% significantly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

192% significantly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

245th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon R9 380 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 380 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3090 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 RTX 3090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R9 380 has a significantly lower TDP at 190 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3090 over the Radeon R9 380.