GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M385X, which features core speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R9 M385X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 100608 (105%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB will be quite a bit (approximately 76%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M385X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46832 (76%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be a lot (approximately 311%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 M385X, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54688 (311%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

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