NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon HD 7990

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 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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$ 335.00

$ 339.96 significantly less expensive

$ 674.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

19% slightly better overall score

1743 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

41 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

35 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

79% significantly higher core clock speed

950 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

100% significantly more memory

3 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

212% significantly lower TDP

375 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

223rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 7000 Series

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

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon HD 7990 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 7990 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon HD 7990 at 375 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 over the Radeon HD 7990.