NVIDIA P106 100 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM P106 100 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA P106 100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

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

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

P106 100

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +28%

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

P106 100 +3%

4070

Radeon R9 290X

3929

P106 100

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

Mining GPUs

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

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

1280

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Hawaii

GP106-100-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

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

290W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 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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