Radeon R9 380X vs R7 260X

older Released November, 2015

AMD Radeon R9 380X

970 MHz
4 GB GDDR5

7.4 Out of 10

This chip is technologically more up-to-date than the Hawaii-based R9 390 series since it features the company's latest Graphics CoreNext (GCN) 1.2 stream processors.

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older Released October, 2013

AMD Radeon R7 260X

1.1 GHz
2 GB GDDR5

6.8 Out of 10

Alongside the Radeon R9 280X and R9 270X, AMD launched its entry-level Radeon R7 260X graphics card, fit for visually-intensive desktops with some mild gaming thrown into the mix.

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	Gaming

Radeon R9 380X 7.1 Radeon R7 260X 5.2 GeForce GTX 750 Ti 6.0
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more

	Graphics

Radeon R9 380X 8.0 Radeon R7 260X 6.0 GeForce GTX 750 Ti 7.2
T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more

	Computing

Radeon R9 380X 7.6 Radeon R7 260X 6.4 GeForce GTX 750 Ti 6.2
Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more

	Performance per Watt

Radeon R9 380X 7.9 Radeon R7 260X 7.0 GeForce GTX 750 Ti 8.1
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

	Value

Radeon R9 380X 5.2 Radeon R7 260X 9.6 GeForce GTX 750 Ti 5.2
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

	Noise and Power

Radeon R9 380X 8.5 Radeon R7 260X 9.1 GeForce GTX 750 Ti 9.6
TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more

7.4	Overall Score

Radeon R9 380X 7.4 Radeon R7 260X 6.8 GeForce GTX 750 Ti 6.7

Winner
AMD Radeon R9 380X

GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon R9 380X based on its benchmarks and compute performance.

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Reasons to consider the
AMD Radeon R9 380X

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Better PassMark score

6,048

3,128

Around 95% better PassMark score

Significantly higher memory bandwidth

182.4 GB/s

104 GB/s

More than 75% higher memory bandwidth

More memory

4,096 MB

2,048 MB

2x more memory

Better floating-point performance

3,973 GFLOPS

1,971.2 GFLOPS

More than 2x better floating-point performance

Higher texture rate

124.2 GTexel/s

61.6 GTexel/s

More than 2x higher texture rate

Significantly more shading units

2,048

896

1152 more shading units

Significantly more texture mapping units

128

72 more texture mapping units

Significantly higher metro: last light framerate

6.9

More than 9.2x higher metro: last light framerate

Better fire strike factor score

56.18

33.7

More than 65% better fire strike factor score

Higher pixel rate

31.04 GPixel/s

17.6 GPixel/s

More than 75% higher pixel rate

More compute units

18 more compute units

More render output processors

Twice as many render output processors

Better particle simulation score

582.48 mInteraction/s

352.84 mInteraction/s

More than 65% better particle simulation score

Better PassMark direct compute score

2,984

1,681

Around 80% better PassMark direct compute score

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Higher clock speed

1,100 MHz

970 MHz

Around 15% higher clock speed

Higher effective memory clock speed

6,500 MHz

5,700 MHz

Around 15% higher effective memory clock speed

Higher memory clock speed

1,625 MHz

1,425 MHz

Around 15% higher memory clock speed

Significantly lower TDP

115W

190W

Around 40% lower TDP

Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon R9 380X

478.65 mHash/s

Radeon R7 260X

225.27 mHash/s

Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon R9 380X

81.44 mPixels/s

Radeon R7 260X

43.62 mPixels/s

Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon R9 380X

1,498.03 frames/s

Radeon R7 260X

803.25 frames/s

Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon R9 380X

582.48 mInteraction/s

Radeon R7 260X

352.84 mInteraction/s

Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon R9 380X

56.18

Radeon R7 260X

33.7

Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon R9 380X

365.47

Radeon R7 260X

264.35

Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon R9 380X

19.66

Radeon R7 260X

16.87

Metro: Last Light

Radeon R9 380X

Radeon R7 260X

6.9

Radeon R9 380X		vs	R7 260X

	9.1 read review		7.8 read review	Furmark maximum power reaches 225 W, which is exactly what the 2x6-pin power inputs are specified for, so ASUS adjusted the power limit to a good value. Radeon R9 380X