Radeon HD 8990 OEM and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8990 OEM
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Malta
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2013
October 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
950 MHz
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 4,096 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
375 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
136.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288.0 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131