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GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon R9 M390X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB comes with core clock speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 72 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M390X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 723 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 120 Watts
Radeon R9 M390X 125 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is 23% quicker than the Radeon R9 M390X in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M390X 160000 MB/sec
Difference: 36608 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB will be a bit (approximately 17%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 M390X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 108432 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M390X 92544 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 15888 (17%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is quite a bit (more or less 212%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R9 M390X, and capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M390X 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 3GB Radeon R9 M390X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year August 2016 2015
Code Name GP106-300 Tonga
Memory 3072 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 108432 Mtexels/sec 92544 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72288 Mpixels/sec 23136 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1152 2048
Texture Mapping Units 72 128
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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR 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 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

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Radeon R9 M390X

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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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