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GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 390 8G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 has a clock frequency of 1506 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 16 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 390 8G, which has core speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs 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 390 8G 326 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1060 311 Sol/s
Difference: 15 (5%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 390 8G 12733 points
GeForce GTX 1060 12359 points
Difference: 374 (3%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 390 8G should be 95% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390 8G is much (about 33%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G 160000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 120480 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 39520 (33%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 390 8G 64000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8288 (13%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1060 Radeon R9 390 8G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2016 June 2015
Code Name GP106-400 Grenada PRO
Memory 6144 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 275 watts
Bandwidth 196608 MB/sec 384000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 120480 Mtexels/sec 160000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72288 Mpixels/sec 64000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 2560
Texture Mapping Units 80 160
Render Output Units 48 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 512-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4400 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1060

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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