GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1425 MHz on this particular model. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R9 380 4G		8837 points
	Difference: 3522 (40%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1060 should theoretically be a bit better than the Radeon R9 380 4G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 14208 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be a small bit (about 11%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 380 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11840 (11%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a lot (about 133%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R9 380 4G, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41248 (133%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.