GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon HD 5490
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1709MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1200 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 5490 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
+4106%
4375
Radeon HD 5490
104
Graphics Card
Jul 2016
Release Date
Oct 2012
GeForce 10
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1709 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
64bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
80
80
TMUs
8
48
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
82.03 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.200 GTexel/s
68.36 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.375 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.0 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
19W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
Cedar
GP106-400-A1
GPU Variant
Cedar XTX
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
59 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0