GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which comes with clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 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 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

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1060 should be a small bit faster than 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 just a bit (approximately 11%) faster with regards to anisotropic 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

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a lot (more or less 133%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380 2G, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.