AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

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

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +10%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Mar 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

2560

Shading Units

1280

160

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GP104

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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