GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs Radeon R9 380X

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2013
GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
Radeon R9 380X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Nov 2015
Radeon R9 380X
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    102%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 380X

60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 6 GB .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 780 6 GBRadeon R9 380X
GPU NameGK110B (GK110-301-B1)vsAntigua (Antigua XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size561 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors7,080 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders2304vs2048
Compute Units12vs32
Core clock863 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs192vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 780 6 GBRadeon R9 380X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1425 MHz
5700 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 780 6 GBRadeon R9 380X
TDP250 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date10 Sep 2013vs19 Nov 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    41.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    31.04 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    166.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    124.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    288.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    182.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    3977.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380X
    3973.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    13770
  • Radeon R9 380X
    13410

Points (higher is better)