NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7990

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7990 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon HD 7990

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 385.96 significantly less expensive

$ 674.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

18% slightly better overall score

1743 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

41 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

35 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

58% significantly higher core clock speed

950 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

70% significantly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

288 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

212% significantly lower TDP

375 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

156% significantly higher pixel rate

32 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

128 Gigatexels/s

4% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

4.10 TFLOPS

4% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

2048

77% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

77% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

223rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon HD 7990 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB beats the Radeon HD 7990 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon HD 7990 at 375 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is better than the Radeon HD 7990.