GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon R9 290X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1708MHz
Lower TDP (120W vs 580W)
Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3935
Radeon R9 290X2
+43%
5632
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Jun 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
512bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
9
SM Count
-
1152
Shading Units
2816
72
TMUs
176
48
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
580W
300 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
Hawaii
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
