Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1708MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (120W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+31%
5733
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
4372
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Mar 2018
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
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
192bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
10
2816
Shading Units
1280
176
TMUs
80
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
136.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
68.32 GFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.372 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.6 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
GP104
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
314 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
