GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M380, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1060 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M380 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M380		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 100608 (105%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be much (approximately 201%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M380. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 80480 (201%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the Radeon R9 M380, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56288 (352%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.