GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs Radeon R9 380X

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Radeon R9 380X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Nov 2015
Radeon R9 380X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    105%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

110 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 380X .
Around 5% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 380X

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

The GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileRadeon R9 380X
GPU NameGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)vsAntigua (Antigua XT)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders1280vs2048
Compute Units10vs32
Core clock1404 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs80vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileRadeon R9 380X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1425 MHz
5700 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileRadeon R9 380X
TDP80 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs19 Nov 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    67.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    31.04 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    112.30 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    124.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    192.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    182.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    3594.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380X
    3973.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    14100
  • Radeon R9 380X
    13410

Points (higher is better)