AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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AMD Radeon R9 390X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390X +35%

5.914 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Unknown

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

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

1280

176

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 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

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

GP104

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

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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