GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1425 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units 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 380X		9519 points
	Difference: 2840 (30%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1060 is 8% faster than the Radeon R9 380X in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X is a bit (about 3%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3680 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.