NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8490 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +1305%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jul 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

160

72

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

35W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Caicos

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos XTX

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

67 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

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