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

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2013
Jul 2016
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2002 MHz
Base Clock
-
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1709 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
192bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
192.2GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
44
-
Shading Units
2816
1280
TMUs
176
80
ROPs
64
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
-
10

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
68.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Hawaii
GP106
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
GP106-400-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
200 mm²

Board Design

TDP
290W
120W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
6.8
CUDA
-
6.1

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
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4,203
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,917
Battlefield 5 1080p
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74
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
50
Battlefield 5 2160p
-
27
Battlefield 5 1440p
-
50