GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon R9 290 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Radeon R9 290
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
GP106
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
November 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
947 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
4,849 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
275 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
151.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
320.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
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
1.2.131
VR Ready
+
-