AMD Radeon R9 380 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Price

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$ 589.00

$ 408.96

$ 180.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

1799 points

40% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

37 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

26 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

Identical

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

22 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2801 points

2833 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29877 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33763 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21940 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28196 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33667 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24865 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

970 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

970 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

4 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

7109% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

190 W

31% slightly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.04 Gigapixels/s

43.3 Gigapixels/s

39% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.6 Gigatexels/s

173.2 Gigatexels/s

59% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.48 TFLOPS

4.16 TFLOPS

19% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

2304

28% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

192

71% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 586

221st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2013 May

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 780 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 780 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 380 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon R9 380 has a slightly 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 Radeon R9 380 also 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 780 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R9 380 has a slightly lower TDP at 190 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 780 is faster than the Radeon R9 380.