NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1709MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +6%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

384bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Malta

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

365 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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