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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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