Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 vs Radeon R9 380X
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2
3072 Mb GDDR5
Released 10 Sep 2013
DESKTOP
VS
AMD
Radeon R9 380X
4096 Mb GDDR5
Released 19 Nov 2015
DESKTOP
Summary
Synthetic performance index
- GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2102%
- Radeon R9 380X100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 the 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 Rev. 2 .
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 | Radeon R9 380X |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK110B (GK110-300-B1) | Antigua (Antigua XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 561 mm² | 366 mm² |
| Transistors | 7,080 million | 5,000 million |
| Shaders | 2304 | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 12 | 32 |
| Core clock | 863 MHz | 970 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 |
| TMUs | 192 | 128 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 | Radeon R9 380X |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 384 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | 1425 MHz
5700 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 3072 Mb | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 | Radeon R9 380X |
|---|
| TDP | 250 watts | 190 watts |
| Release Date | 10 Sep 2013 | 19 Nov 2015 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 241.40 GP/s
- Radeon R9 380X31.04 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2166.00 GT/s
- Radeon R9 380X124.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2288.00 GB/s
- Radeon R9 380X182.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 23977.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon R9 380X3973.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 213770
- Radeon R9 380X13410
Points (higher is better)