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

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

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X +35%

5.914 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

VS

Radeon R9 390X

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Jun 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

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

1280

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

136.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

739.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Grenada

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

275W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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