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GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 M290X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 features a GPU core speed of 1506 MHz, and the 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1280 Stream Processors, 80 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M290X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1200 MHz on this model. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M290X 100 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060 120 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1060 will be 28% quicker than the Radeon R9 M290X overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M290X 153600 MB/sec
Difference: 43008 (28%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (about 77%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M290X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M290X 68000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 52480 (77%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the Radeon R9 M290X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M290X 27200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 45088 (166%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1060 Radeon R9 M290X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2016 May 1 2014
Code Name GP106-400 Neptune XT
Memory 6144 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 196608 MB/sec 153600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 120480 Mtexels/sec 68000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72288 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 1280
Texture Mapping Units 80 80
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4400 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1060

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Radeon R9 M290X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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