NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R9 290
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2017
Nov 2013
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Volcanic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1063 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1480 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
512bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
-
Shading Units
1280
2560
TMUs
80
160
ROPs
48
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
40
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
71.04 GPixel/s
60.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
59.20 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Hawaii
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-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
80W
275W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
600 W
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
3DMark Time Spy
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3,694