AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU AMD Radeon R9 M290X AMD · 2014-01
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q NVIDIA · 2017-06
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2014
Jun 2017
Generation
Gem System
GeForce 10 Mobile
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1063 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1480 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1280
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
—
10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
71.04 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
118.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
59.20 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
GP106
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
N17E-G1-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
80W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.4
CUDA
—
6.1
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.