GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1425 MHz on this particular card. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		19 Mh/s
Radeon R9 380 2G		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		12185 points
Radeon R9 380 2G		8850 points
	Difference: 3335 (38%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is 8% quicker than the Radeon R9 380 2G in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 14208 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G will be a bit (more or less 0%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 208 (0%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41248 (133%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.