NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
vs
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB and the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB and has 1152 texture shaders and 9 execution units.

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is based on AMD Radeon R9 FURY X, which has 4096 shaders and 64 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GPU AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Based on AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
GP106-300-A1 GPU Chip Fiji XT C8
Pascal Architecture Fiji
9 Streaming Multiprocessors 64
1152 Shader 4096
48 Render Output Units 64
72 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has 3 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X can access 4 GB HBM graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

3 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type HBM
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 0.500 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 1.0 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 4096 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB clocks in the base with up to 1.506 GHz. The base frequency of the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is 1.050 GHz.

1.506 GHz Base Clock 1.050 GHz
1.708 GHz Boost Clock 1.050 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is 120 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin connector.

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X has a TDP of 275 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

120 W TDP 275 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a total of 1 Radial fans.

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X has 1 Axial (Radiator) fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Radial Fan-Type Axial (Radiator)
1 x 65 mm Fan 1 1 x 120 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type AIO water cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 0
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v1.4a
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_1 DirectX 12_0
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode
No AV1 No
No VP8 No
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is 250 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is 195 mm long, 115 mm high and 39 mm wide.

250 mm Length 195 mm
111 mm Height 115 mm
-- Width 39 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB was released in Q3/2016 at a price of 199 $ (Reference).

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X was introduced in Q2/2015 at a price of 649 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no --
Q3/2016 Release date Q2/2015
199 $ (Reference) Launch Price 649 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
3 GB GDDR5
28 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
3 GB GDDR5
45 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
3 GB GDDR5
65 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
4 GB HBM
58643

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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