The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, benchmark again gave a lead to the 380X over the Geforce GTX 960, mainly in the higher resolution of 3,840 × 2,160 pixels. There both the Radeon R9 380 and the GeForce GTX 960 suffer from memory shortage. But have in mind that the 380X scored an average of 15 FPS at3,840 × 2,160 / Ultra quality settings, meaning the game is unplayable.

In Final Fantasy XIV and the 1,920 × 1,080 resolution, the difference between the Radeon R9 380X and the Radeon R9 380 was less than 10%. The 380X had almost the same performance with the GTX 960 at 1920x1080 DX9 and DX11, and took a 20% lead at 3840 x 2160 DX11.

Power consumption

We measured the power consumption of the system during the benchmarks with each GPU. Both idle and maximum power figures we recorded.

The consumption of the Radeon R9 380X at idle was 51W, which is just 1W more than the 50W idle we recorded for the R9 380. On the other hand, the idle power consumption for the Geforce GTX 960 and GTX 970 was 43W and 47W, respectively. It seems that the GeForce-based cards have a small advantage in terms of power consumption while idle.

With the Radeon R9 380X running benchmarks, we recorded a maximum value of 240W, although lower values of 210 W were also recorded. Those figures remained the same with the Radeon R9 380.

The GeForce GTX 960 draws significantly less power under benchmarks - we measured figures at the 157~190W, depending on the type of benchmark.