AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 380

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 380

Price

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$ 488.33

$ 100.67 slightly less expensive

$ 589.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

321% significantly better overall score

1280 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

242% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2801 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29877 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33763 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

177% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28196 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

33667 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

65% significantly higher core clock speed

970 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

96% significantly higher boost clock speed

970 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

448 GB/s

11100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

190 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

292% significantly higher pixel rate

31.04 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

180% significantly higher texture rate

108.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

180% significantly better floating point performance

3.48 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

42% many more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

42% many more texture mapping units

112

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

93rd of 586

245th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon R9 380 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 380 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 XT has significantly more memory with 8 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 Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 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 5700 XT over the Radeon R9 380.