NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2017
Nov 2013
Generation
GeForce 10
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
5GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
160bit
512bit
Bandwidth
160.2GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
-
Shading Units
1280
2560
TMUs
80
160
ROPs
40
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1280 KB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
40
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
68.36 GPixel/s
60.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Hawaii
GPU Variant
GP106-350-K3-A1
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
275W
Suggested PSU
300 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
📊 Benchmark
Blender
332
-
3DMark Time Spy
-
3,694