Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
8405
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Hawaii
N17E-G1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2013
August 2016
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
SLI options
-
-
Boost clock speed
-
1708 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1280
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
4,275 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
80 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
94 °C
Texture fill rate
151.5
133.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
192 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
-
2.2
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
Ansel
-
+
GameStream
-
+
GPU Boost
-
3.0
VR Ready
-
+