NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R9 390X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 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 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages
Boost Clock1709MHz
Lower TDP (120W vs 275W)
AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
4.375 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 390X
+35%
5.914 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
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
-
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
2816
80
TMUs
176
64
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
109.4 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
GP104
GPU Name
Grenada
GP104-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
Grenada XT
(215-0880004)
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
