NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon R9 380

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 380

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 254.00 significantly less expensive

$ 589.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

62% significantly better overall score

1280 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2801 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29877 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

33763 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28196 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

33667 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

76% significantly higher core clock speed

970 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

58% significantly lower TDP

190 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

245th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 380 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 380 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon R9 380 at 190 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 over the Radeon R9 380.