AMD Radeon R9 390
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
AMD Radeon R9 390
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon R9 390 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

148
Place in performance rating
121
19.18
Value for money (0-100)
43.49
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
Grenada
Code name
GP106
Desktop
Type
Desktop
18 June 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
19 July 2016 (5 years ago)
$329
Launch price (MSRP)
$299
$320 (1x MSRP)
Price now
$525 (1.8x MSRP)
reference
Design
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31.34
Value for money
28.31
Grenada
GPU code name
GP106
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon R9 390 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

2560
Pipelines
1280
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Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
6,200 million
Transistor count
4,400 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
275 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
160.0
Texture fill rate
136.7
5,120 gflops
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
2560
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1000 MHz
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
6,200 million
Number of transistors
4,400 million
275 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
120 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon R9 390 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB.

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

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon R9 390 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
512 Bit
Memory bus width
192 Bit
1000 MHz
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
384 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon R9 390 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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G-SYNC support
+
1
Eyefinity
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6
Number of Eyefinity displays
no data
+
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
no data

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon R9 390 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB is the additional functionality.

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VR Ready
+
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Multi Monitor
+
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CUDA
6.1
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Multi-Projection
+
-
AppAcceleration
no data
1
CrossFire
no data
1
FreeSync
no data
-
HD3D
no data
+
PowerTune
no data
+
TrueAudio
no data
-
ZeroCore
no data
+
VCE
no data
+
DDMA audio
no data
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G-SYNC
+
-
Enduro
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon R9 390 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 12
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
+
Vulkan
1.2.131
6.3
Shader Model
6.4
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
+
Mantle
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon R9 390 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon R9 390 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon R9 390
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon R9 390
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon R9 390
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon R9 390
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon R9 390
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 390

Cheaper ($320 (1x MSRP) vs $525 (1.8x MSRP))

More pipelines (2560 vs 1280)

More memory bandwidth (384 GB/s vs 192.2 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

7.19% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (16 nm vs 28 nm)

Less power consumption (120 Watt vs 275 Watt)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, AMD Radeon R9 390 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB .

AMD Radeon R9 390 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon R9 390
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