AMD Radeon R9 380 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

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

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Price

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$ 589.00

$ 399.00

$ 190.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

2457 points

91% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

47 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

40 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

31 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

33 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29877 points

36416 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33763 points

37241 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28196 points

36494 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33667 points

35697 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

970 MHz

1506 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

970 MHz

1709 MHz

76% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

4 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

4704% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

190 W

120 W

58% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.04 Gigapixels/s

82.03 Gigapixels/s

164% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.6 Gigatexels/s

136.7 Gigatexels/s

25% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.48 TFLOPS

4.04 TFLOPS

16% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

40% slightly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

40% slightly 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

245th of 586

180th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2016 July

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

4.6

Radeon R9 380 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6GB benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB beats the Radeon R9 380 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 6GB over the Radeon R9 380.