GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 32 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R9 380 2G		8850 points
	Difference: 3509 (40%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory be a little bit superior to the Radeon R9 380 2G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 14208 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a little bit (more or less 11%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11840 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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