GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and Radeon R9 290X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon R9 290X2
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
GP106
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
June 2014
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
4x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
2816
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
580 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
176.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
5400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
345.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
+
1.2.131