AMD Radeon R9 380 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Price

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$ 589.00

$ 519.99

$ 69.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

1% slightly better overall score

1261 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

14 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2801 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2038 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29877 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16368 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33763 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16340 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28196 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18409 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33667 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

18023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

970 MHz

1006 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

970 MHz

1058 MHz

9% 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

2% slightly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.04 Gigapixels/s

33.86 Gigapixels/s

9% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.6 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

24% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.48 TFLOPS

6% slightly better floating point performance

3.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

16% slightly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

128

14% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

244th of 586

246th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2012 March

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 680 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 680 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 380 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 680 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 680 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon R9 380 has a slightly lower TDP at 190 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 680 over the Radeon R9 380.