NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB and AMD Radeon R9 390X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 59% higher boost clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 1050 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.4x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 275 Watt
  • 7.6x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1050 MHz
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 12021 vs 11675
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 12021 vs 11675
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5569 vs 3706
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5569 vs 3706
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5034 vs 3350
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 5034 vs 3350
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 August 2016 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed 1670 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12021 vs 11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12021 vs 11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5569 vs 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5569 vs 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5034 vs 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5034 vs 3350

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390X

  • Around 38% higher texture fill rate: 184.8 GTexel / s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
  • 2.2x more pipelines: 2816 vs 1280
  • Around 38% better floating-point performance: 5,914 gflops vs 4,275 gflops
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
Texture fill rate 184.8 GTexel / s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2816 vs 1280
Floating-point performance 5,914 gflops vs 4,275 gflops
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390X

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
12021
11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
12021
11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5569
3706
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5569
3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5034
3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5034
3350
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB AMD Radeon R9 390X
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12021 11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12021 11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5569 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5569 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5034 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5034 3350
PassMark - G3D Mark 9443
PassMark - G2D Mark 819
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 114.288
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2911.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 10.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 118.411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 683.568
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4242

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB AMD Radeon R9 390X

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 2.0
Code name GP106 Grenada
Launch date 15 August 2016 18 June 2015
Place in performance rating 276 279
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $429

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1670 MHz 1050 MHz
Core clock speed 1404 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,275 gflops 5,914 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1280 2816
Texture fill rate 133.6 GTexel / s 184.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 275 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 6,200 million
Compute units 44
Stream Processors 2816

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Length 275 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin

API support

Vulkan
DirectX 12
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 384 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 512 bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore