NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 X2 +17%

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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Radeon R9 390 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Sep 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

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

160.0 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.120 TFLOPS

136.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

640.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

580W

300 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Grenada

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

314 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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