In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R9 380 Asus DirectCU II OC Strix Gaming 4GB Edition are significantly better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Gigabyte OC 1GB Edition.

The R9 380 has a 90 MHz higher core clock speed and 48 more Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 560 Ti. This results in the R9 380 providing 53.3 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R9 380 has a 90 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 560 Ti and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the R9 380 providing 2.9 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R9 380 was released over three years more recently than the GTX 560 Ti, and so the R9 380 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the GTX 560 Ti when running the latest games.

The R9 380 has 3072 MB more video memory than the GTX 560 Ti, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the R9 380 also has superior memory performance overall.

The R9 380 has 48 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 560 Ti, which means that the memory performance of the R9 380 is noticeably better than the GTX 560 Ti.

The Radeon R9 380 Asus DirectCU II OC Strix Gaming 4GB Edition has 1792 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 560 Ti Gigabyte OC 1GB Edition has 384. However, the actual shader performance of the R9 380 is 1508 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 560 Ti is 691. The R9 380 having 817 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the R9 380 delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GTX 560 Ti.

The R9 380 transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GTX 560 Ti. This means that the R9 380 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GTX 560 Ti.

The Radeon R9 380 Asus DirectCU II OC Strix Gaming 4GB Edition requires 190 Watts to run but there is no entry for the GeForce GTX 560 Ti Gigabyte OC 1GB Edition. We would recommend a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the R9 380.