NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X AMD Radeon R9 380X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 182.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +10%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

3.973 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon R9 380X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 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

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1425 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

182.4GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.04 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.2 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.973 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.973 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

248.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Antigua

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

190W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

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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