AMD Radeon R9 380X VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

amd

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

2048

Cores

182.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon R9 380X

N/A Nov 2015 View Details

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nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

1664

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 970

N/A Sep 2014 View Details

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AMD Radeon R9 380X

4GB GDDR5 190W N/A Nov 2015

Radeon R9 380X

$229 • Nov 2015

GeForce GTX 970

$329 • Sep 2014

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

4GB GDDR5 148W N/A Sep 2014

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon R9 380X	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Memory Size	4 GB	4 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
TDP	190 W	148 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	N/A	1178 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	182.4 GB/s	224.4 GB/s
Process Size	28nm	28nm
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Maxwell 2.0
Shading Units	2048	1664
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	128	104
ROPs	32	56
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1425 MHz	1753 MHz
Pixel Rate	31.04 GPixel/s	65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	182.4 GTexel/s	224.4 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	3.973 GFLOPS	3.92 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	0.50 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	366 mm²	398 mm²
Transistors	5000 Million	5200 Million
Required PSU	450 W	300 W
Power Connectors	2x 6-pin	2x 6-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12	12.1
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

2743

AMD Radeon R9 380X

3574 (+30%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

28182

AMD Radeon R9 380X

28989 (+3%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

FPS

AMD Radeon R9 380X

46.8 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

6174

AMD Radeon R9 380X

9637 (+56%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Game Benchmarks Comparison (252 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+64%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+73%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+67%)

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+41%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 92 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+33%)

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+35%)

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 23 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+25%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+15%)

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+16%)

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 19 FPS

MIN 15 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+22%)

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+13%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 40 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+5%)

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+13%)

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon R9 380X (+2%)

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon R9 380X (+10%)

AVG 23 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+5%)

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+10%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

Radeon R9 380X

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon R9 380X (+12%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Wins!

Based on 252 benchmarks across 84 games

Avg FPS

Radeon R9 380X

+27.2%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 970