GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and Radeon R9 290 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
Radeon R9 290
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
GP104
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
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
1709 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
947 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
4,849 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 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
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.3 GB/s
320.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.3
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.131