AMD Radeon R9 380 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Compare AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Price

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$ 589.00

$ 664.25 significantly less expensive

$ 1253.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

106% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

30 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

14 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2801 points

52% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1841 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29877 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14780 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33763 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14358 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28196 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15314 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33667 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16269 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

970 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

970 MHz

980 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

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

4 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

4707% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

190 W

170 W

11% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.04 Gigapixels/s

13% slightly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.6 Gigatexels/s

109.8 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.48 TFLOPS

31% slightly better floating point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

33% slightly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

Identical

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 586

307th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon R9 380 vs GeForce GTX 670 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon R9 380 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 670 in our tests.

The Radeon R9 380 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 670 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 670 has a slightly lower TDP at 170 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 Radeon R9 380 over the GeForce GTX 670.