GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 390X 8G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 390X 8G, which has clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 390X 8G		330 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
	Difference: 19 (6%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 390X 8G		13555 points
GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
	Difference: 1196 (10%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 390X 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (129%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 390X 8G will be 95% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		384000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 187392 (95%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390X 8G should be a lot (approximately 53%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		184800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 64320 (53%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a small bit (about 8%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 390X 8G, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 390X 8G		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5088 (8%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.