NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M390X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 M390X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon R9 M390X 's Advantages

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +44%

4.275 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390X

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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Radeon R9 M390X

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

-

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Amethyst

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

5 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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