AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +28%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Oct 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

1709 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

1280

176

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GP104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

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

Board Design

580W

TDP

120W

950 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

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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