Additionally the r9 390 sports a minimum of 8gb of vram versus 4gb on the r9 290.
Sapphire nitro r9 390 8gb vs gtx 1060 6gb.
Both cards share the same gpu but the r9 390 is factory overclocked.
Find out which is better and their overall performance in the graphics card ranking.
33 sapphire 174b e308 poor.
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Based on 1 028 868 user benchmarks for the amd r9 380 and the nvidia gtx 1060 6gb we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 643 gpus.
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On the face of it purchasing an r9 290 at a discount and then manually overclocking will result in the same performance as an r9 390 but with a saving of around 70.
Comparing the rx 480 and gtx 1060 shows that for pre dx12 games the 1060 edges ahead by 12.
The r9 390 has 191 8 gb sec greater memory bandwidth than the geforce gtx 1060 which means that the memory performance of the r9 390 is massively better than the geforce gtx 1060.
Effective 3d speed effective 3d gaming gpu speed.
Nvidia rushed the release of the gtx 1060 to help retain market share that may otherwise have gone to amd s new polaris based rx 480.
The gtx 1060 is nvidia s answer to amd s new polaris based rx 470.
At the current price levels of 329.
Comparing the gtx 1060 and 970 shows that although the 1060 leads by 12 it is also currently more expensive.
We have seen several samples of the r9 390 and they scored an effective speed of 88 5 which as expected matches the speeds seen on overclocked r9 290s.
Gta 5 benchmarks in my personal opinion the gtx 1060 wins but the benchmark for the r9 390 finished faster and plus the 1060 is a new card song used.
174b e308 worst bench.
The new amd r9 390 is the direct successor to the r9 290.