GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon R7 350 OEM

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon R7 350 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R7 350 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 350 OEM

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB .
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBRadeon R7 350 OEM
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-300-A1)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders1152vs384
Compute Units9vs6
Core clock1506 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs48vs8
TMUs72vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBRadeon R7 350 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBRadeon R7 350 OEM
TDP120 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date18 Aug 2016vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    72.30 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    108.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    192.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    3470.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better