GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 970 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R9 380X		9519 points
	Difference: 2840 (30%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory perform a small bit faster than the Radeon R9 380X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 14208 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X is a bit (about 3%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3680 (3%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (more or less 133%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380X, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.