AMD Radeon R9 380 vs AMD Radeon Vega 3

Compare AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 3, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

1053% significantly better overall score

111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2801 points

576% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

414 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29877 points

579% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4396 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33763 points

586% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4915 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28196 points

610% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3968 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33667 points

480% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

970 MHz

223% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

970 MHz

1100 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

190 W

15 W

1166% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.04 Gigapixels/s

605% significantly higher pixel rate

4.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.6 Gigatexels/s

722% significantly higher texture rate

13.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

833% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

833% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

244th of 586

492nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R9 380 vs Radeon Vega 3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 380 GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 3 in gaming.

The Radeon R9 380 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 3 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.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 3 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon R9 380 at 190 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 380 over the Radeon Vega 3.