NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2017
Jan 2014
Generation
GeForce 10
Gem System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
2257 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
216.7GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
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Shading Units
1280
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Neptune
GPU Variant
GP106-410-A1
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
100W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
6.1
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Shader Model
6.4
6.5 (5.1)
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.