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

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AMD Radeon R9 390 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390 +17%

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Mar 2018

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1280

160

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

GP104

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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