AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Unknown
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1001 MHz
Base Clock
—
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1709 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
—
Shading Units
2816
1280
TMUs
176
80
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
SM Count
—
10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
109.4 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
GP104
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
GP104-150-KA-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
314 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
6.4
CUDA
—
6.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.