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Radeon R9 380 2G vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

The Radeon R9 380 2G makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1425 MHz on this model. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380X, which comes with core clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 380X 9519 points
Radeon R9 380 2G 8850 points
Difference: 669 (8%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380 2G 19 Mh/s
Radeon R9 380X 19 Mh/s
Difference: 0 (0%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same memory bandwidth, so in theory they should perform the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X should be a bit (more or less 14%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G 108640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 15520 (14%)

Pixel Rate

Both cards have exactly the same pixel fill rate, so theoretically they should perform equally good at at AA, and be able to handle the same screen resolutions. (explain)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 380 2G Radeon R9 380X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year June 2015 November 2015
Code Name Antigua PRO Tonga XT
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 970 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 5700 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 190 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 182400 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 108640 Mtexels/sec 124160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 31040 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1792 2048
Texture Mapping Units 112 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5000 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 ×16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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