NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2 +31%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

512bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

1280

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

40

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Vesuvius

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 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 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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