AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

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AMD Radeon R9 390X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 216.7GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390X +35%

5.914 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Apr 2017

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

1709 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2257 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

216.7GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

2816

Shading Units

1280

176

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

184.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

5.914 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

739.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

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 Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

GP106

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

GPU Variant

GP106-410-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

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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