NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 5490

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

ATI Radeon HD 5490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1200 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5490 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +4106%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5490

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 5490

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Oct 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

80

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

19W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Cedar

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cedar XTX

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

59 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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