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

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 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)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +89%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Jun 2017

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

80W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP106

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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