GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 380 OEM

GeForce GTX 970
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 970
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 970
    128%
  • Radeon R9 380 OEM
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970

42 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 380 OEM .
Around 28% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970

The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 970Radeon R9 380 OEM
GPU NameGM204 (GM204-200-A1)vsAntigua (Antigua PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders1664vs1792
Compute Units13vs28
Core clock1050 MHzvs918 MHz
ROPs56vs32
TMUs104vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 970Radeon R9 380 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 970Radeon R9 380 OEM
TDP148 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date19 Sep 2014vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970
    58.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380 OEM
    29.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970
    109.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380 OEM
    103.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 970
    224.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380 OEM
    176.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 970
    3494.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380 OEM
    3290.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 970
    15750
  • Radeon R9 380 OEM
    12280

Points (higher is better)