NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1480MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +89%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Pitcairn

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

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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