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GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon R9 390 8G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1506 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 72 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 390 8G, which features a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 512-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 390 8G 326 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 290 Sol/s
Difference: 36 (12%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 390 8G 28 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 19 Mh/s
Difference: 9 (47%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 390 8G 12733 points
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 12185 points
Difference: 548 (4%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 120 Watts
Radeon R9 390 8G 275 Watts
Difference: 155 Watts (129%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 390 8G, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G 384000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 196608 MB/sec
Difference: 187392 (95%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390 8G will be quite a bit (about 48%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G 160000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 108432 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 51568 (48%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is superior to the Radeon R9 390 8G, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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 3GB Radeon R9 390 8G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year August 2016 June 2015
Code Name GP106-300 Grenada PRO
Memory 3072 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 108432 Mtexels/sec 160000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72288 Mpixels/sec 64000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1152 2560
Texture Mapping Units 72 160
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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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