NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +10%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Nov 2013

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

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

275W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Hawaii

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

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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