NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon R9 390X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X +35%

5.914 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Radeon R9 390X +8%

4245

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon R9 390X

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

512bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

40

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

739.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

275W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Grenada

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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