AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare AMD Radeon R9 390X 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, 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

65 points

2058 points

3066% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

25 FPS

42 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS

33 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

30 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

29 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1506 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz

1708 MHz

62% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W

120 W

129% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

67.2 Gigapixels/s

81.98 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

184.8 Gigatexels/s

50% significantly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.91 TFLOPS

50% significantly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

144% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

144% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

536th of 586

206th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2016 August

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

Radeon R9 390X vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB beats the Radeon R9 390X in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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 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 R9 390X at 275 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 3GB over the Radeon R9 390X.