Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon HD 7990
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3072 Mb GDDR5
Released 18 Aug 2016
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VS
AMD
Radeon HD 7990
3072 Mb GDDR5
Released 24 Apr 2013
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB100%
- Radeon HD 7990113%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
- 255 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7990 .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 the Radeon HD 7990
- Around 13% higher average synthetic performance.
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the Radeon HD 7990
The Radeon HD 7990 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB | Radeon HD 7990 |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP106 (GP106-300-A1) | Malta () |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | 365 mm² |
| Transistors | 4,400 million | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 1152 | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 9 | 32 |
| Core clock | 1506 MHz | 950 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 |
| TMUs | 72 | 128 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB | Radeon HD 7990 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | 384 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 3072 Mb | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB | Radeon HD 7990 |
|---|
| TDP | 120 watts | 375 watts |
| Release Date | 18 Aug 2016 | 24 Apr 2013 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB72.30 GP/s
- Radeon HD 799060.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB108.40 GT/s
- Radeon HD 7990244.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB192.20 GB/s
- Radeon HD 7990576.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB3470.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon HD 79907782.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB16380
- Radeon HD 799018530
Points (higher is better)