NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390X 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

3095% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

30 FPS

2 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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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

4254 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

62% significantly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

129% significantly lower TDP

275 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

537th 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

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 390X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 390X in gaming.

In our comparison, 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon R9 390X has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 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 R9 390X at 275 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 is better than the Radeon R9 390X.