AMD Radeon R9 380 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Price

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$ 589.00

$ 395.99

$ 193.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

4311 points

236% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

89 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

64 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

78 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

37 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2801 points

7692 points

174% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29877 points

57968 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33763 points

48131 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28196 points

65528 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33667 points

77765 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

970 MHz

1130 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

970 MHz

1560 MHz

60% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

4 GB/s

336 GB/s

8300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

190 W

150 W

26% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.04 Gigapixels/s

99.8 Gigapixels/s

221% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.6 Gigatexels/s

224.64 Gigatexels/s

106% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.48 TFLOPS

7.19 TFLOPS

106% significantly 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

144

28% slightly more texture mapping units

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

245th of 586

116th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R9 380 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 380 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5600 XT 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 RX 5600 XT also has a significantly 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 Radeon RX 5600 XT has significantly more memory with 6 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 RX 5600 XT 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 Radeon RX 5600 XT over the Radeon R9 380.