GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs Radeon R9 380 OEM

GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Nov 2015
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Radeon R9 380 OEM
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 380 OEM
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    100%
  • Radeon R9 380 OEM
    118%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 380 OEM

Around 18% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 380 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 380 OEM

The Radeon R9 380 OEM is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 960 OEMRadeon R9 380 OEM
GPU NameGM204 (GTX 960 OEM)vsAntigua (Antigua PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders1280vs1792
Compute Units10vs28
Core clock924 MHzvs918 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs80vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 960 OEMRadeon R9 380 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 960 OEMRadeon R9 380 OEM
TDP0 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date26 Nov 2015vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    44.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380 OEM
    29.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    73.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380 OEM
    103.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    120.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380 OEM
    176.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    2365.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380 OEM
    3290.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    10380
  • Radeon R9 380 OEM
    12280

Points (higher is better)