AMD Radeon R9 380 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Price

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$ 589.00

$ 70.00 slightly less expensive

$ 659.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

11265 points

780% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

231 FPS

201 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

167 FPS

148 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

204 FPS

177 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

97 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2801 points

19436 points

593% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29877 points

157812 points

428% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33763 points

100571 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28196 points

154801 points

449% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33667 points

157877 points

368% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

970 MHz

2015 MHz

107% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

970 MHz

2250 MHz

131% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% significantly more memory

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

512 GB/s

12700% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

190 W

57% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.04 Gigapixels/s

288 Gigapixels/s

827% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.6 Gigatexels/s

648 Gigatexels/s

496% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.48 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

496% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

4608

157% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

288

157% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

244th of 586

33rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2020 November

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 6800 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 380 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6800 XT has a significantly 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 Radeon RX 6800 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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 significantly lower TDP at 190 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 XT is better than the Radeon R9 380.