Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1708MHz
Lower TDP (120W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+45%
5733
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3935
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Aug 2016
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
192bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
9
2816
Shading Units
1152
176
TMUs
72
64
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
120W
900 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GP106
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GP106-300-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.3
Shader Model
6.4