Radeon R9 295X2 and GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison
Radeon R9 295X2
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Vesuvius
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
-
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2 x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1018 MHz
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 5,733 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
179.2
136.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
256.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-