NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB AMD Radeon R9 380X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +10%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

3.973 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +28%

3908

Radeon R9 380X

3050

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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Radeon R9 380X

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Nov 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

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1425 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

182.4GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.04 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.2 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.973 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.973 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

248.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Antigua

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

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

120W

TDP

190W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

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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