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GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 M395X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 has a GPU core clock speed of 1506 MHz, and the 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M395X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 723 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1250 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 120 Watts
Radeon R9 M395X 125 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon R9 M395X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M395X 160000 MB/sec
Difference: 36608 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (more or less 30%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M395X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X 92544 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 27936 (30%)

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 M395X 23136 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 49152 (212%)

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 M395X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2016 2015
Code Name GP106-400 Tonga
Memory 6144 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 723 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 196608 MB/sec 160000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 120480 Mtexels/sec 92544 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72288 Mpixels/sec 23136 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 2048
Texture Mapping Units 80 128
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4400 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1060

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Radeon R9 M395X

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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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