AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

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

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +43%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X +1%

3925

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3849

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2016

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

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

2816

Shading Units

1152

176

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

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

GP106

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

200 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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