Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Hawaii

GP106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2013

April 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

Core clock speed

947 MHz

1506 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,849 gflops

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

151.5

136.7

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

9028 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

216.7 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131