NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs AMD Radeon R9 290X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2017
Oct 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
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Boost Clock
1709 MHz
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Memory Clock
2257 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
512bit
Bandwidth
216.7GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
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Shading Units
1280
2816
TMUs
80
176
ROPs
48
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
1024 KB
Compute Units
—
44
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Hawaii
GPU Variant
GP106-410-A1
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
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
290W
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
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
6.1
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Shader Model
6.4
6.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.